The ‘Mountaineers’ painting from the Valuy Museum of History and Art was created by the People’s Artist of Kyrgyzstan Alexander Ignatiev. His works are kept in 14 museums in Russia and former Soviet republics and the State Tretyakov Gallery. 

Alexander Ignatiev is one of the brightest representatives of artists in the USSR. He created hundreds of characters dedicated to the nature and people of Kyrgyzstan: “Moonlight evening, ” “Spring in the Tian Shan mountains, ” “Mountaineers, ” “Bridges hanging over Narym, ” “Conquered mountains.” In his painting, Ignatiev simultaneously worked on themes of Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Since 1955, he was a member of the Board of the Union of Artists of the Kyrgyz SSR and members of the State Expert Commission under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic. On his initiative, Alexander Ignatiev organized the national Museum of Fine Arts in his home town of Valuyki, which is known as the Valuy Museum of History and Art. The artist donated dozens of paintings to the museum’s holdings and attracted colleagues from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, the Baltics, and Moscow forming a museum collection.