Boris Dubrovin

Boris Valentinovich Dubrovin was born on September 7, 1939, in Leningrad and died on January 24, 2013. He graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art in 1964, settled in Chișinău (Kishinev) the same year and joined the Union of Artists in 1966.

With his wife, Galina Dubrovina, he made the marble reliefs of the Muses on the facade of the National Opera and Ballet Theater (1980) and the monument to Metropolitan Petru Movilă (1996). His later works include the bronze grieving mother of the Afghan war memorial in Chișinău.

The national catalog of public monuments lists him, with B. Diujev and E. Zibrov, as a sculptor of the statue of Sergei Lazo in Chișinău (1982).