Alexey Ivanovich Avdyshev (September 19, 1928, Leningrad, RSFSR - December 31, 1997, Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia) - landscape painter, graphic artist, poet, Honored Artist of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Alexey Ivanovich Avdyshev was born in a working class family. In his school years he was engaged in the studio of young art historians at the State Hermitage. In 1942 he was evacuated from the besieged Leningrad to the Kurgan region, where he graduated from an eight-year school. In 1945-1950 he studied at the Leningrad Art and Graphic School. In 1949, his poems were published in the newspaper Smena. In 1950-1952 - in the ranks of the Soviet army, he served in the Arctic, then in Karelia.
After demobilization, in 1952 he moved to Petrozavodsk, worked as a literary officer in a youth newspaper, a methodologist at the House of Folk Art. In 1956, the first poetry collection The Northern Dawns was published; A. I. Avdyshev was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. The first color linocuts were highly appreciated in 1957 at the exhibition of the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, A. I. Avdyshev was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR.
Alexey Ivanovich Avdyshev died on December 31, 1997 in Petrozavodsk.
