Albin Gavdzinskiy
1923–2014 People's Artist of Ukraine
Represented in the collection with original works depicting Odesa's streets, theatres and shoreline, alongside winter studies from Sedniv.
A flight instructor during the war, he became a painter afterward. In 1950 he graduated from the Odesa Art School in the class of Mykola Pavliuk — the same teacher who trained Lomykin and Lytvynenko.
In 1960 Gavdzinskiy gave the town of Nova Kakhovka 237 of his own paintings — this is how a picture gallery came to be, named after him in his own lifetime.
Called "the last of the Mohicans of Odesa impressionism," he left behind roughly 1,000 works over his lifetime, now held in museums across eight cities: Kyiv, Odesa, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Lviv, Sevastopol, and Alupka.