Boris Ivanovich Shamanov was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1931. From 1948 to 1956 he studied at the Mukhina Academy of Art in Leningrad under the guidance of Professors A.A. Kazantsev, S.A. Petrov, P.D. Butchkin and K.A. Ioganson in the monumental and decorative arts department. He began exhibiting his works in 1958 and… (bio to be updated)