Nikolai Galakhov was born in 1928, in Kazan, USSR. He studied at the Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. His teachers were Leonid Ovsannikov, Joseph Serebriany, Piotr Belousov, Yuri Neprintsev. In 1953 Galakhov graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Rudolf Frentz workshop. In 1954-1956 Galakhov continued his postgraduate study in the Repin Institute of Arts. Since 1951 Galakhov had participated in Art Exhibitions mostly as a master of landscape and genre scene. He is working in technique of oil painting, tempera, pastel, watercolors, and pencil drawing. In 1984 Nikolai Galakhov was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of Russian Federation. Solo Exhibitions by Nikolai Galakhov were in Leningrad (1988) and Saint Petersburg (2010, 2013). Paintings of Nikolay Nikolaevich Galakhov reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery and many Art museums and private collections of Russia, China, England, US, Japan and other countries.
