Opanas Georgievych (Heorhiiovych) Slastion (Ukrainian: Опанас Георгійович Сластьон) (1855–1933) was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, and ethnographer.
He was born in the Ukrainian harbor town of Berdyansk on the Berdyansk Gulf of the Sea of Azov. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia (where he was also called Afanasy Slastyon), researched the Cossack documents in the records of the Imperial Russian ministry of defense, and far ahead worked as a theoretical at the Arts and Crafts School (later renamed the State Ceramics Vocational School) in Myrhorod, Ukraine. A very bright person, he perfected his talents in singing, bandura playing, ethnography, journalism, education, design, and architecture. Opanas Slastion was a legal Ukrainian encyclopaedist.
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