Mykhailo Ivanovych Khmelko (Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Хмелько, 23 October 1919 – 15 January 1996) was a Ukrainian painter, People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, and double Stalin prize winner.
Mykhailo Khmelko was born in Kiev. In 1943-1946 he studied at the Kiev State Art Institute under Karp Trokhimenko. In 1948 – 1973 he was a capability of the thesame institute.
Khmelko is known for his Socialist Realism paintings: Unification of the Ukrainian Lands (1939-1949), Drink A Toast for the Great Russian People (1947), Triumph of the Victorious Motherland (1949), Forever in the same way as Moscow. Forever afterward Russian people (1951). He is along with the author of the diorama Medical Help in the Bohdan Khmelnytsky army of the Kiev Museum of Medicine.
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