Vogue ART ON THE BATTLEFRONT

MARIIA
DMITROVA

ALEXEY
KONDAKOV

ARTEM
PROOT

OLESIA
TROFYMENKO

ELIZAVETA
LITOVKA

PETRO
BEVZA

VICTORIA
PIDUST

DENYS
SARAZHYN

BOHDAN
BURENKO

VASYLYNA
VRUBLEVSKA

NIKITA
KRAVTSOV

VITALII
KRAVEC

YELENA
YEMCHUK

HANNA
ZARUMA

OLGA
STEIN

STEPAN
RYABCHENKO

VOLO
BEVZA

YURI
BOLSA

VLADA
RALKO

YURIY
SIVIRIN

JULIA
BELIAEVA

MASHA
REVA

IVAN
GRABKO

MARIA
KULIKOVSKA

VOLODYMYR
MANZHOS

Darina
Mikityuk

DZVINYA
PODLYASHEVSKA

DENYS
METELIN

NATA
LEVITASOVA

OLGA
ZERNO

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"Pacifism is a privilege" Digital. 2022

MARIIA DMITROVA

Masha Dmitrova is a Ukrainian designer and artist with a strong focus on fashion, art, cultural and educational projects, specializing in creating creative concepts and developing campaigns. Among the projects she authored and coauthored are the development of brand identity for such projects as the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the “Diia” application, and the 51st Kyiv International “Molodist” Festival.

Mariia was born and raised in Kyiv, but after the full-scale invasion, she temporarily moved to Berlin, where she works on international projects independently and with other freelancers from Ukraine.

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau "Work Interaction" Collage, 70 x 55 cm. 2022

ALEXEY KONDAKOV

Alexey Kondakov is a Kyiv-based digital artist who uses surrealistic documentary photography to superimpose figures from classical artwork onto everyday scenes of modern life. He is famous for his series Reverberate Ukraine photo collages, where Kyiv and Chernihiv’s wartime realities became the backdrop for characters from the classical masterpieces.

The artist merges the past and the present in collaborations with fashion houses: he created prints for the Hugo Spring–Summer 2022 collection and a series of works for the Balmain Fashion House show held at Paris Fashion Week.

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"Lord" Canvas, acryl, 90 х 120 cm. 2022

ARTEM PROOT

Artem Proot is a Kyiv-based artist whose first exhibition, Celebra, was held in the LabCombinat cultural space in 2012. Artem began his career in street art: he started painting in his teenage yeas and later became the author of a mural on Kyiv’s Barbus Street, created as part of the Art United Us project. He is a representative of the lowbrow trend as well as of pop-up and futurism artistic movements.

Artem considers himself an artoholic. The foundation of the artist’s style f the aesthetics of pure color and clear lines. The characters of his words — whether girls and unusual creatures or interiors and basketball courts — convey an abundance of meanings and a wide range of emotions.

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"A Reboot" Canvas, oil, 90 х 60 cm. 2022

OLESIA TROFYMENKO

Olesia was born in the town of Vilcha, which became a part of the exclusion zone after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident. She now lives in Kyiv and works as an artist in the film production industry. Among her most famous projects is the production of the “Kriposna” series. Her portfolio also includes two personal art exhibitions and over ten group exhibitions.

The artist’s style is a combination of painting and embroidery elements. Olesia collaborated with the House of Dior on the Fall–Winter 2022/2023 Haute Couture show held at Paris Fashion Week: her canvases with traditional Ukrainian embroidery decorated the Rodin Museum, where the show took place.

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"Strong Shoes" Photo. 2022

"The Eternal Sun" Photo. 2022

"Lunch for Unwanted Guests" Photo. 2022

ELIZAVETA LITOVKA

A Ukrainian artist and photographer, Elizaveta Litovka has been surprising her subscribers on social media and readers of international periodicals with her artworks — sophisticated yet whimsical shoes made of food and improvised materials. Some of them are allusions to the models of famous fashion brands.

The artist, who offers her own perspective on modern fashion, has successfully and fruitfully collaborated with Balenciaga and Off-White, as well as with Ukrainian designers: she created shoes made of BMW plastic bags and foil for LANstudios, and also participated in the shooting campaigns for KSENIASCHNAIDER and Sleeper.

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"Power" Canvas, oil, 225 x 190 cm. 2022

PETRO BEVZA

Petro Bevza is a Kyiv-based artist, sculptor, and master of landscape art. He is the author of ideas, co-curator, and participant of art projects on the intersection of art and philosophy. Petro is the winner of the Honorary Prize of the D’ART’96 International Salon of Contemporary Art and a grant from the Pro Helvetia Foundation for the best project of 2001.

Petro’s work has been widely exhibited in Ukraine and abroad; he has held over fifty personal exhibitions. His artwork is exhibited in museums on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2022, during the full-scale Russian invasion, he created a series of works, “Sapsanas,” where he reconsidered and embodied the values of Ukrainians.

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"Broken tree" Soft Image series. Digital. 2022

VICTORIA PIDUST

Victoria Pidust is a Ukrainian artist and photographer. Born in Nikopol, she has lived and worked in Berlin since 2015. In 2021, she graduated from the Weißensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin with a degree in Fine Art. For her, photography is not only a tool for depicting reality but also a means of distancing oneself from reality and modeling one’s own world.

Victoria presents her works in the form of printed large-scale wallpapers, light boxes, and framed photos; she uses photogrammetry and artificial intelligence to create them. Victoria’s artworks were exhibited at Paris Photo 2021, Art Cologne, and New Positions 2022.

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"A Knight" Canvas, oil, 158 x 163 cm. 2022

DENYS SARAZHYN

Born in Nikopol, Denys studied computer design at Kherson University and graduated from the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts, specializing in painting. Denys was awarded a 1st–degree diploma and a prize for outstanding achievements in painting from the Ukrainian Academy of Arts.

The artist is equally good at portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. His works gravitate towards parables and have a lot of hidden metaphors, but the artist considers sincerity, which the viewer will definitely feel, to be the most important asset of an artist. He now lives in Kharkiv.

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"Fauna Situation" Canvas, acryl, 160 x 120 cm, 2022

BOHDAN BURENKO

Bohdan studied at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, majoring in Design and Directing. At first, he worked on television, and in 2013 began to work with painting and graphics professionally. Within a year, he presented his works at a group exhibition in London, and within two years, his first personal exhibition was held in San Francisco.

Bohdan believes that the artist is primarily an interpreter of reality and not an illustrator, therefore, he is partially present in each of his images. His artworks can be found in private collections in Europe, the USA, Asia, and Australia.

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"The Dnipro River At Dawn, A View From A Destroyed Bridge II" Photography, collage. 2022

VASYLYNA VRUBLEVSKA

Vasylyna Vrublevska is a Kyiv-based fashion photographer whose portfolio includes shoots for Vogue UA, Rolling Stone, and Forbes. Vasylyna’s photography was presented at group exhibitions in Paris and Lisbon. Her interests include Ukrainian history and culture.

The photographer shot the Gunia Project collection, inspired by the Ukrainian folk decoration of clothing, implemented the #EthnoVogueUA project where she presented her view of the national costume, and also explored the Ukrainian traditions by shooting photo projects for the Honchar Museum during the Malanka and Easter holidays in Bukovyna.

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"A Burned Card" Silk-screen printing. 100 x 60 cm. 2022

NIKITA KRAVTSOV

Nikita Kravtsov is an artist and a graduate of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. In his artworks, he explores the absurdity and changeability of the modern world through images and plots of mass culture. Nikita illustrated the Criminal Code of Ukraine, as well as crime news in leading online publications. He authored animated clips and mini-films and created collaborations with global fashion brands.

Nikita participated in Art Kyiv Contemporary, ARSENALE Contemporary Art Biennale, and the parallel program of the Venice Biennale (2011). He lives and works in Paris with his wife, a co-author of some of his artworks, Camille Sanier-Kravtsova.

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"A Shooter" Monotyping. 40 x 30 cm. 2022

VITALII KRAVEC

Vitalii Kravec is a Lviv-based artist who works in theater art, film production, and the interdisciplinary cultural industry. His artwork can be found in private collections in Europe, Asia, and the USA. In July 2022, at a personal exhibition, he presented an ironic anti-Russian manifesto, “The Anatomy of the Spineless” — 26 graphic works created in his native Lviv during the air raids in the first months of the war.

The artist is nominated for the 2023 Taras Shevchenko National Prize in the Visual Arts category with this series.

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Untitled. Pastel on paper. 2022

YELENA YEMCHUK

Yelena Yemchuk is a Ukrainian artist working in photography, film, and painting. Born in Kyiv, Yelena immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was a teenager. She studied fine art at Parsons NY and Photography at Art Center in Pasadena. Yelena has exhibited paintings, films, and photographs at galleries and museums worldwide.

She has worked with Vogue (also as a cover author), The New Yorker, The New York Times, AnOther Magazine, ID. Yelena released a number of photobooks: “Hidropark” (2011), Anna (2017), Mabel, Betty & Bette (2021), Odesa (2022), and YYY (2022). In her artworks, she often turns to Ukrainian themes.

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Untitled. Digital. 2022

HANNA ZARUMA

Hanna is a Lviv-based artist who works in painting, sculpture, fashion design, conceptual photography, and video. She also participated in fashion shows as a model and prepared visuals for Ukrainian fashion brands. Exploring the aesthetics of nostalgia for the 1990s, Hanna creates futuristic items using fragments of old used gadgets.

Among the artist’s most famous works are shoes and bags with elements of the Microsoft keyboard, a filter mask from the cell phones of the 2000s, and provocative videos on the city’s surfaces. On Instagram, the artist’s digital art objects instantly go viral.

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"Christening" Canvas, oil, tempera, coal, 200 x 160 cm. 2022

OLGA STEIN

The artist, originally from Cherkasy, began her career as a restorer of sacred art monuments. In her work, she explores the themes of feminism, physicality, and vitality. Olga was the founder of the artist-run spaced thesteinsudio in Kyiv, which held many exhibitions before Russia’s full-scale invasion. Later, Olga became a curator of a residence and several exhibitions in Cyprus.

Among the artist’s latest projects is a personal exhibition in Paris, La Humaine Condition, group exhibitions in Europe and the USA, and cooperation with the Dorotteum auction house and the Palo Alto Foundation.

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"BloomiNosе", from the Virtual Garden series. Digital print on aluminum under plexiglass, 150 х 78 см. 2022

STEPAN RYABCHENKO

Stepan Ryabchenko is an Odesa-born Ukrainian artist, and one of the prominent representatives of new media art. His work spans digital art, conceptual architecture, sculpture, graphics, photography art, and light installations. Stepan creates large-scale digital prints and computer animation, which become fragments of the virtual world he has constructed.

Often the subjects of the image are fictional plants and animals — surreal forms of life. Using a component of the technological development of humankind as a tool, the artist appeals to the idea of human relationships with the natural environment.

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Untitled. Сanvas, UV-Print and acrylic, 40 x 50 cm. 2022

VOLO BEVZA

Volo Bevza studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv. He then studied fine art at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. He graduated with a Master’s degree in the class of Prof. Friederike Feldmann. Volo lives in Berlin, where he works as a visual artist, lecturer, and curator.

Bevza’s work deals with the omnipresence of the internet, focusing on the question of the role of painting in the post-digital age and creative play between the abstract and the real. He relies on a hybridization of the painting process to open up new, critical perspectives within the painting medium.

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"Under The Closed Sky" Digital image. 2022

YURI BOLSA

Yuri is a self-taught artist from Chervonohrad who now lives in Kyiv and works with painting, graphics, and collage. In his words, he often juxtaposes reality and imagination, where the latter always wins. Yuri participated in the Festival of Naive Art (2021), and presented his paintings at personal and group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.

He is the laureate of the 2022 Ambassadors of Culture Scholarship, co-founded by the Odesa Museum of Contemporary Art. During Russia’s full-scale invasion, he created a series of sculptures, “Toy Monuments,” using, among other things, the illustrations from children’s books and toys as material.

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"The Antique" Gouache, marker, graphite on paper, 200 x 150 cm. 2022.

"The Night and the Darkness Give Birth to Somnus and Thanatos"Gouache, marker, graphite on paper, 200 x 150 cm. 2022

VLADA RALKO

Vlada Ralko is one of the most outstanding modern Ukrainian artists; she worlds with painting, graphics, sculpture, and installation. Her works are mostly about the human body and its metamorphoses, real or imagined; the differences between external and internal; deconstruction and reconstruction of the form.

She was awarded the Prize of the All-Ukrainian Painting Triennial (2001), and her words are often exhibited in Ukraine, Europe, and the USA. The artist is a laureate of the Women In Arts Award (2019). Vlada is also known as the author of poetry, essays, and critical articles about art and its connection with politics and philosophy. She lives and works in Kyiv.

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"Azovstal" Canvas, acryl, 200 x 150 cm. 2022

YURIY SIVIRIN

Yuriy Sivirin is a Kyiv-based artist who began his career by combining creative work with teaching. Now he works in various fields — painting, video, and installations. He is also famous as an art curator. Among the artist’s works are aesthetic paintings with surrealistic plots where he foregrounds conflicts, incompatibilities and oddities inherent in human nature, the complexities of life, and attempts to find meaning and hope in it.

Yuriy participated in Kyiv Art Week, GogolFest, and exhibitions in Ukraine, Canada, France, and Romania. The artist’s works can be found in museums and private collections on both sides of the Atlantic.

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"Saint Sebastian" Digital sculpture. 2022

JULIA BELIAEVA

Julia is a multidisciplinary Kyiv-based artist and the founder of the GRA design studio. Her artistic practice spans a variety of media, including digital and traditional sculpture. In her artworks, Julia uses maximum possibilities, rethinking tradition and balancing between the virtual and the physical.

She is best known as the author of porcelain artworks where through simple and clear forms, as well as balanced composition, she foregrounds social problems: truth and post-truth, the realities of a post-totalitarian society, new technologies, humanism, etc. Her works can be found in private collections in Europe and America.

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"Pleasure Garden" Canvas, oil, 200 x 300 сm. 2022

MASHA REVA

Masha Reva is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in fashion, working in various fields of design. The artist’s drawings cover all kinds of surfaces, from jewelry, pottery, and textile design to the human body. She collaborated with brands like Jacquemus, Rachel Comey, PepsiCo, and institutions like the Royal Opera House and Rijksmuseum.

Masha’s work was featured in Vogue UA, Vogue US, and Vogue Poland. In the spring of 2022, together with her partner Ivan Grabko and a group of artists, Masha created a charity project, Under The Open Sky, to help those affected by the war in Ukraine.

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"My God, What a Beautiful Garden"Canvas, oil, 439 х 300 cm. 2022

IVAN GRABKO

Ivan Grabko is a Kyiv-based artist from Zaporizhzhia. He studied at the Art College in Dnipro and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. It was his grandfather and his stories about art that inspired Ivan to pursue a creative career, while living on the outskirts of a post-Soviet industrial city forced him to search for an escape from his limited environment and fed his imagination.

Ivan's artistic practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. He created his painting "My God, What a Beautiful Garden" in the first months of the full-scale invasion under the impact of the tragic events in Mariupol and Bucha.

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From the "My Body is a Battlefield" series. Hand painting on ceramic tableware, glaze. 2022.

MARIA KULIKOVSKA

Maria is a multimedia artist, architect, and performer originally from Kerch. She received her MA in Fine Arts atKonsfack University, Stockholm. She is a nominee of the PinchukArtCenter Prize and the author of architecture projects in Ukraine, Switzerland, and China. Her portfolio includes over fifty exhibitions and performances worldwide.

She is known for her series, which includes vulnerable casts of her body made of various materials: soap, resin, and wax. After Russia’s full-scale invasion, she became a self-described “actionist in exile” with no permanent home due to war.

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"Don't let that shadow touch them / don't buy Russian oil (and gas)" Digital illustration. 2022

VOLODYMYR MANZHOS

Volodymyr is a Kyiv-based muralist, graphic artist, and sculptor. Since 2004, he has been a member of the street art group Interesni Kazki (in partnership with Oleksii Bordusov), which created over 100 murals throughout Ukraine and debuted in 2011 at the Miami Art Basel. Today, the artist, also is known under the pseudonym WaOne, works independently on murals around the world.

This fall, in Kyiv’s Podil neighborhood, Volodymyr created a 16-meter-long mural-metaphor “Time of Changes 3: Victory,” where he embodies the invincibility and determination of Ukrainians in their fight against the Russian invaders in the image of a Cossack. Later, the postal stamp with the image of the mural was issued.

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"You 24" Сanvas, аcryl, 100 x 100 cm. 2022

Darina Mikityuk

The artist hails from Lubny, in the Poltava region, and is a representative of the modern trend of pop art in its feminine interpretation. Darina mainly paints portraits where she conveys her characters’ emotions, moods, and feelings in a romanic style. Her first solo exhibition, Pop Art Mate, took place in Kyiv in 2015.

Since then, the artist has been actively engaged in artistic activity: her portfolio includes over 30 personal and group exhibitions, and her works are represented at auctions. This fall, she became a participant in the CONTRAPUNCT exhibition of Ukrainian artists in Vienna, dedicated to the resilience of Ukrainian during the war.

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"Bomb Shelter" Paper, acrylic, pastel, 65 x 50 cm. 2022

DZVINYA PODLYASHEVSKA

Born and raised in Lviv, Dzvinya is an artist, a finalist of the Delphian Open Call 2020 competition at the London Delphian Gallery, and a participant in many group exhibitions in Ukraine and several personal exhibitions, where she presented her graphic works and paintings. Her artistic practice is centered around her great interest in mental health, human interactions, and emotions.

Thus, in her artworks, she represents “life dramas” — colorfully, sarcastically and with ambiguity: the complicated is merged with the simple, and the tragic with the comic. Her artworks can be found in private collections in Europe, the USA, and Australia.

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"The Defenders of Kyiv" Canvas, acryl, spray, 70 x 50 cm. 2022

DENYS METELIN

Denis was born and raised in the Crimea where he took up graffiti. In March 2014, after to the annexation of the peninsula, he moved to Lviv where he works till nowadays. He is a resident of the “Painted Fox” art association. The main motif of his artworks is the sublimation of the problems of post-Soviet society.

His most famous projects are “Biography” (2019-2020), which embodied his feelings about the annexation of Crimea, and “Decommunization” (2021-2022). Since Russia’s large-scale invasion, most of his works. have been statements about the war.

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"October", Home series. Рaper, watercolor, 105 x 75 cm. 2022

"September", Home series. Рaper, watercolor, 105 x 75 cm. 2022

NATA LEVITASOVA

A Kyiv-based artist, Nata studied in Kyiv (majoring in painting) and Lviv (majoring in the book and easel graphics). In her artworks, the artist foregrounds the themes of industrialization, the displacement of nature by cities, and human loneliness in the modern world. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, she has created the “PAINted” series about the destroyed cities of Ukraine and the ruined destinies of their residents.

Nata’s painting style gravitates toward neocubism, geometric simplification, and pixelization. The artist’s works can be found in museums and galleries in Ukraine and Great Britain, as well as in private collections in Europe and the USA.

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«Women»Print, embroidery, acryl, 150x170 см, 2023

OLGA ZERNO

Olga is an original artist, successful marketing specialist, and brand designer. She was born in Zakarpattia and studied in Lviv, where she now lives. Olga worked in various areas of design and illustration – from theater posters to prints and patches for clothing collections. She is the author of projects with several types of merchandise: the “Grain of Good” project and the collages for the alphabetic project “Letter Are Here.”

The artist’s style is rooted in traditional folklore imagery and is built on the principles of the harmonious coexistence of man and the environment and the understanding that humanity and nature are one.

MARIIA DMITROVA

ALEXEY KONDAKOV

ARTEM PROOT

OLESIA TROFYMENKO

ELIZAVETA LITOVKA

PETRO BEVZA

VICTORIA PIDUST

DENYS SARAZHYN

BOHDAN BURENKO

VASYLYNA VRUBLEVSKA

NIKITA KRAVTSOV

VITALII KRAVEC

YELENA YEMCHUK

HANNA ZARUMA

OLGA STEIN

STEPAN RYABCHENKO

VOLO BEVZA

YURI BOLSA

VLADA RALKO

YURIY SIVIRIN

JULIA BELIAEVA

MASHA REVA

IVAN GRABKO

MARIA KULIKOVSKA

VOLODYMYR MANZHOS

Darina Mikityuk

DZVINYA PODLYASHEVSKA

DENYS METELIN

NATA LEVITASOVA

OLGA ZERNO

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MARIIA
DMITROVA

ALEXEY
KONDAKOV

ARTEM
PROOT

OLESIA
TROFYMENKO

ELIZAVETA
LITOVKA

PETRO
BEVZA

VICTORIA
PIDUST

DENYS
SARAZHYN

BOHDAN
BURENKO

VASYLYNA
VRUBLEVSKA

NIKITA
KRAVTSOV

VITALII
KRAVEC

YELENA
YEMCHUK

HANNA
ZARUMA

OLGA
STEIN

STEPAN
RYABCHENKO

VOLO
BEVZA

YURI
BOLSA

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RALKO

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SIVIRIN

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BELIAEVA

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REVA

IVAN
GRABKO

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MANZHOS

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Mikityuk

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METELIN

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