Boris Vasilievich Chesnokov is a professional artist. He studied at Ivanovo School of Art. Later on, he taught drawing at the school, and led his own arts studio. He spent more than 10 years working as an artist and designer in the Tomsk and Usinsk mines in Mezhdurechensk. He is a member of Colorit, a club of artists in the city. He frequently takes part in exhibitions and competitions. He has won prizes in the city’s Artist of the Year and Young Face of the City competitions, as well as the regional competitions Character of a Miner and Kuzbass is our Home. His main subjects are his native region and its people. He paints in several different genres, including landscapes, scenes of daily life and portraits.
In Portrait of Yury Uteshev, Boris Chesnokov depicts Russia’s leading mountain climber, Master of Sport and conqueror of Everest.
Yury Vladimirovich Uteshev was passionately fond of mountains. He started climbing at the age of 16. He would dedicate his life to this exciting but dangerous sport. In the third year of his studies at Tomsk Polytechnical University, he was named Alpinist of the USSR for his outstanding professionalism and technical expertise in mountain climbing. He went on to become a member of the rescue division of the National Association of Trade Unions, and was involved in transport and rescue work in the Alibek mountain camp in the settlement of Donbai and the Tandar mountain camp in Alma-Ata, as well as working as a rescue officer in the Kemerovo region division of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Services.
Yury Uteshev was awarded all the most important awards of the USSR, and conquered a number of peaks over 7 000 m, including Communism Peak, Lenin Peak, Korzhenevskoi Peak and Khan-Tengri. He was awarded the Snow Leopard Award for his achievement in conquering those peaks. In 1995 he joined a Siberian expedition to climb five peaks over 8 000 meters.
In 2006 a group of climbers from the Kuzbass region, led by Yury Uteshev, was close to completing its ascent of the most challenging of those eight-thousanders, K2, in Pakistan, but fate had other plans for the expedition. Four of the expedition’s failed to return from the snowy heights of Chogori, or the Killer Mountain, as it is also known.
In the painting the artist depicts not just his subject’s physical appearance, but also his determined and brave character.
In Portrait of Yury Uteshev, Boris Chesnokov depicts Russia’s leading mountain climber, Master of Sport and conqueror of Everest.
Yury Vladimirovich Uteshev was passionately fond of mountains. He started climbing at the age of 16. He would dedicate his life to this exciting but dangerous sport. In the third year of his studies at Tomsk Polytechnical University, he was named Alpinist of the USSR for his outstanding professionalism and technical expertise in mountain climbing. He went on to become a member of the rescue division of the National Association of Trade Unions, and was involved in transport and rescue work in the Alibek mountain camp in the settlement of Donbai and the Tandar mountain camp in Alma-Ata, as well as working as a rescue officer in the Kemerovo region division of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Services.
Yury Uteshev was awarded all the most important awards of the USSR, and conquered a number of peaks over 7 000 m, including Communism Peak, Lenin Peak, Korzhenevskoi Peak and Khan-Tengri. He was awarded the Snow Leopard Award for his achievement in conquering those peaks. In 1995 he joined a Siberian expedition to climb five peaks over 8 000 meters.
In 2006 a group of climbers from the Kuzbass region, led by Yury Uteshev, was close to completing its ascent of the most challenging of those eight-thousanders, K2, in Pakistan, but fate had other plans for the expedition. Four of the expedition’s failed to return from the snowy heights of Chogori, or the Killer Mountain, as it is also known.
In the painting the artist depicts not just his subject’s physical appearance, but also his determined and brave character.
