Mikhail Savicki

Mikhail Savicki studied at Minsk State Art College and Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts. Training under Dmitry Mochalsky and Feodor Modorov is recorded. Viktar Alsheŭski is recorded as having studied under Mikhail Savicki. Positions recorded include list of members of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1985–1990) and list of members of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1975–1979). Work by Mikhail Savicki is recorded in the collections of Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum and Belarusian National Arts Museum. Distinctions recorded are USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Hero of Belarus and People's Painter of the USSR.

• Name — Mikhail Savitsky • Birthplace — Zvenyachi, Orshansky Uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian SFSR • Born — 18 February 1922 • Died — 8 November 2010 • Citizenship — Belarus • Occupation — Painter

Mikhail Savitsky was born on February 18, 1922, in the village Zvenyachi, Orshansky Uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian SFSR. When Savitsky was nineteen years old, the Great Patriotic War broke out in Belarus, which is also known to the rest of the world as World War II. The country was reunited and became a battlefield. Mikhail Savitsky joined the Anti-Aircraft Artillery and the 345th Infantry Division. At twenty years old, he fought in the battles of Sevastopol that lasted 250 days. Savitsky was captured by the Nazis and imprisoned in 3 out of the 260 death camps. He was placed in the camps Düsseldorf, Buchenwald, and Dachau. Savitsky was liberated from the Dachau captivity on April 29, 1945, when American troops arrived. In the post-war era, Mikhail Savitsky received an education in arts. In 1951, he graduated from Minsk Art College and went on to study at the Moscow Art Institute of Surikov, graduating in 1957. Savitsky became the head of the national program “Creative academic studios for painting, drawing, and sculpturing” in Minsk. He was USSR's People's Deputy from 1989 to 1991, became a member of the International Slavic Academy, and received the Order of Francis Skaryna in 1997.

Mikhail Savicki is recorded as having studied at Minsk State Art College and Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts.