Mickola Vorokhta [SEP] country of citizenship
Mickola Vorokhta
Mickola Vorokhta (, born 18 July 1947 in Rakhiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist-painter who lives and works in Odessa. In 2014 he was awarded the status of Merited Artist of Ukraine.
Mickola Vorokhta finished his education in 1971 at the Art Faculty of Odessa Pedagogical Institute ("maître" V. G. Efimenko). From 1974 to 1998 he was a lecturer at the art department of Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Since 1995 he has been a member of the National Union
Odessa's established status as "capital of Soviet humor", culminating in the annual Humoryna festival, carried out around the beginning of April.
Odessa was also the home of the late Armenian painter Sarkis Ordyan (1918–2003), the Ukrainian painter Mickola Vorokhta and the Greek philologist, author and promoter of Demotic Greek Ioannis Psycharis (1854–1929). Yuri Siritsov, bass player of the Israeli Metal band PallaneX is originally from Odessa. Igor Glazer Production Manager Baruch Agadati (1895–1976), the Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer,