Alexander antanenka biography

Alexander Antanenka was born in the Soviet Union in the city of Brest, Belarus, on February 16, 1951. Alex start drawing in pencil at the age of 5.

Alexander antanenka biography

He attended art school in Brest and in grade school decided that painting would be his life. He went on the attend the Art Academy in Leningrad ( Saint Petersburg), Russia where he graduated at the top of his class in 1978. Alex was living happy and content life with his wife and young daughter in the Soviet city of Minsk as a professional artist when the Chernobyl disaster claimed both his parents’ lives, who lived only 20 miles from the accident site.

He experienced deep anger toward the Soviet government because of its attempt tp cover up the Chernobyl disaster and its terrible effects of not evacuating immediately those who lived in the fallout zones. Very soon after this tragedy, he fled to the Siberian city of Magadan to start a new life.

This city was used as a place of exile by the Soviet Government for various artists, poets an