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Nikolay Havrylovych Shmatko (; 17 August 1943 – 15 September 2020) was a Ukraine sculptor and Painting. He was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
He worked in marble, inspired by European culture and art. His studio and gallery contain 100 sculptures (more than 70 of which are made of Ural and Italian marble); 30 plaster casts; and about 300 pictures (including paintings, graphics, and architectural designs). In total, there are approximately 750 pieces, ranging from simple decorations to bas-relief and high relief busts and sculptures. Some of these pieces are sexually explicit and even pornographic. Shmatko also worked in architecture, and had a design for a penis-shaped high-rise building.
In 2004, for his work "Sviatohorska Blessed Virgin" - a statue of the Virgin Mary (Theotokos "Hegumenia") for Sviato-Uspenskyi Sviatohorskyi Monastery - Shmatko was awarded the order of Nestor Letopisets by Volodymyr Sabodan, the Kyiv Metropolitan, and all of Ukraine.
In the autumn of 2005 the Transfiguration church was opened in the village of Keleberda, Poltava region. Exclusively for this church, the sculptor created a marble sculpture "The Crucifixion".
In autumn 2012, at the invitation of oligarch Viktor Baloha, Shmatko moved with his family to the city of Mukachevo.
Sviato-Uspenska
Sviatohirsk Lavra
Sviatohirsk, Ukraine
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Ural marble, 66 x 125 x 67
Soshenko.jpg| Ivan Soshenko
Shevchenko Taras.jpg| Taras Shevchenko
Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University
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