Jury Rupin

Jury Rupin (October 1, 1946, Krasnyi Lyman, USSR (now Lyman, Ukraine) – October 22, 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania) was a photographer, artist, writer.
Biography.
Early life and education.
Born on October 1, 1946 in Krasnyi Lyman, USSR (now Lyman, Ukraine).
He got his first camera in 1958, started doing photography straight after.
From 1961 to 1965 he studied in Slavyanskiy technical college.
He served in the Soviet army from 1965 to 1968 (Tbilisi, Yerevan).
From 1969 to 1974 he studied in Kharkov Polytechnical Institute.
from 1979 to 1985 he studied in Saint Petersburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Career.
In 1974–1976 he started a famous art group "Vremya group" ("Time") in Kharkiv.
From 1971 to 1985 he worked as a correspondent for "TASS", "Evening Kharkiv", "Red Flag", Kharkiv advertising combine.
In 1990 until 1993, together with Aleksandr Maziuk, he opened the first private gallery in the USSR (Tallinn, Estonia).
From 1994 to 2001 he was managing director of the "Rupincom" stock photo agency.
He died in Vilnius, Lithuania at aged 62.
Past Exhibitions (1974–1976).
In a very short 2-year period Jury's work has been successfully exhibited all around the world. Many works have collected exhibition awards.
In 1976 the KGB has completely sealed any channels of sending Jury's photos abroad after a nude photo was discovered by a KGB agent in a package of photos sent for an exhibition.
Australia
Angola
Argentina
Belgium
Brazil
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
France
GDR
Germany
Holland
India
Italy
Japan
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
Romania
United Kingdom
USA
Yugoslavia
The "Vremya group" ("Time"), Kharkiv.
Jury Rupin is the founder of an art group "Vremya group" – well known both in Ukraine and the USSR (1974–1976).
The group has consisted of such photographers as Eugeny Pavlov, Oleg Malevanny, Aleksandr Suprun, Gennady Tubalev, Boris Mikhailov, Aleksandr Sitnichenko and later – Anatoly Makienko.
Vremya group (Kharkiv) exhibited at Student palace, Kharkiv, USSR, 1987, and "Сarte blanche a Boris Mikhailov" in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (September – October) 1999,