Lazar Semionovich Yazgur was born on 7 June 1928 in Leningrad. In 1946, Yazgur entered in
Tavricheskaya Art School, which graduated in 1949. In 1950, he entered at the Department of Monumental Painting of the
Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina, where he studied of Ivan Stepashkin, Sergei Petrov, Kirill Iogansen. In 1953, Yazgur graduated from the Higher School of Industrial Art in Anatoli Kazantsev workshop. Since 1957, Lazar Yazgur has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted landscapes, genre scenes, sketches from the life. Most famous for his lyrical landscapes, and etudes done from nature in Old Ladoga in 1950-1970s. In 1961, Lazar Yazgur was admitted to the
Leningrad Union of Artists (since 1992 known as the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists). Lazar Semionovich Yazgur died in 2000 in Israel, where he lived since 1993. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, Germany, Israel, the U.S., and throughout the world. ==See also==