Elena Kostenko

Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko
Born	August 9, 1926 Leningrad, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko (Russian: Еле́на Миха́йловна Косте́нко; August 9, 1926, Leningrad, USSR) is a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portrait paintings.

Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko was born August 9, 1926 in Leningrad. Her father, Mikhail Kostenko, was an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, one of the major organizers of Soviet science.

In 1938, Elena Kostenko entered at the Leningrad Secondary Art School under the All-Russian Academy of Arts, which is trained with a break until 1946. Her teachers were Leonid Ovsyannikov, Alexander Zaytsev, Leonid Sholokhov, Alexander Debler, Vladimir Gorb. Together with Elena Kostenko in Leningrad Secondary Art School studied many well known in the future Russian artists and sculptors including Mikhail Anikushin, Evgenia Antipova, Vladimir Chekalov, Abram Grushko, Iya Venkova, Maya Kopitseva, Anatoli Levitin, Oleg Lomakin, Nina Veselova, Vecheslav Zagonek, Alexei Eriomin, Marina Kozlovskaya, Yuri Tulin, Victor Teterin, and others.

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