Mikhail Vasilievich Kopyev was born in 1947 in the city of Ufa near the Ural Mountains. After graduating from the Ufa State Institute of Arts, he taught at his alma mater before doing postgraduate work at the Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad. Since 1986 Kopyev has lived and worked in the city of Vologda north of Moscow.

Specializing in painting, drawing and theatrical scenery decoration, Mikhail Kopyev has displayed his work at national and regional exibitions in Russia and abroad. In addition, he participated in the international "Expo-88" show in Australia and has had personal exibitions in Ufa, Vologda and Moscow. His work was most recently displayed this year at the Moscow Art Salon exibition in the Central Exibition Hall.

Mikhail Kopyev's paintings have been purchased by the Nesterov Art Museum in Ufa, the Vologda Oblast Gallery of Art, the Cherepovets Art Gallery, the Bashkiria Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. His paintings can also be found in private collections in Russia, Israel, Germany, France, Italy and the United States.

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