Sadylenko, Yurii [Садиленко, Юрій], b 20 January 1903 in Zhytomyr, Volhynia gubernia, d 30 November 1967 in Kyiv. Painter. After graduating from the Kyiv State Art Institute (1930), where he studied under Lev Kramarenko, he lectured at the Kharkiv Art Institute (1931–41) and, from 1944, at the Kyiv State Art Institute. In the 1920s he was a member of the Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine and the Union of Contemporary Artists of Ukraine. He painted historical canvases, such as T. Shevchenko’s Arrest (1939); genre paintings, such as Steelworkers (1930) and Construction (1930); portraits; the panel T. Shevchenko’s Grave (1940) at the Kaniv Museum-Preserve; and illustrations for an edition of Taras Shevchenko’s Kateryna (1939). In 1930 he and I. Zhdanko created the large-scale frescoes of the conference hall of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which were plastered over in 1940.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]