Valery Sazonov, director of Penza Picture Gallery, passes away
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Penza, 17 March 2015. PenzaNews. Valery Sazonov, director of the Savitsky Penza Picture Gallery, has passed away on Tuesday, March 17, less than a week after celebrating his 70th anniversary, the press service of the regional Department of Culture and Archive informed PenzaNews agency.
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Valery (Petrovich) Sazonov was born in Penza on March 1, 1945, to the family of state officials.
After the school, he took part-time classes in the Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with a major in “Theory and History of Arts.”
After graduating from the pedagogical institute with a diploma, Valery Sazonov began his work as a teacher of painting and technical drawing in the Penza school No. 47 in 1963, at the same time teaching technical drawing in the middle evening school No. 1.
Between 1964 and 1967, he served in the Soviet Army, and in 1967-1969 he worked in the Komsomol as the head of the school and university department for the Zheleznodorozhny area committee of the Penza All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (AULYCL).
Between 1969 and 1972, he worked as the head of the aesthetics bureau of the VEM factory.
In 1972, Valery Sazonov, then 27, was assigned the position of the director of the Penza Savitsky Picture Gallery, where he worked until the last days of his life.
He taught arts history in the Penza Savitsky Arts College.
From 1990, he was a senior, later – associate professor of the Penza State Pedagogical University for the faculty of World and Russian Arts.
In 2002, he was invited to the Penza State Academy of Architecture and Construction to work as the professor on Visionary Arts History.
In 1996, Valery Savitsky was Boris Yeltsin’s authorized representative on the presidential election.
A Honored Artist of Russia, he received the letter of gratitude from the Russian President (1996), the medal “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the 2nd degree (1997), the honorary gubernatorial award “For Glory of the Penza Land” (2002), the order of the Blessed Sergius of Radonezh of the 3rd degree (2000), and the medal “For Merit to the Penza Region” (2015).
