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The museum was found in 2008.
The museum was opened in 18/06/2008.

The opening of museum was in honor of 90’s anniversary from birthday of A.P. Burley.

Автопортрет А.П. БурлаяA.P. Burley
(29.07.1918 — 17.06.2000)

A.P. Burlai was born in 1918 in a village of Arestopol of Dnepropetrovsk oblast. Upon graduation from  aviation college in 1938, he works as a design engineer. But his long-standing passion for painting compels him to change a profession, and from 1938 he studies at Perm art school. However, war halts for some time realization of creative intentions of young artist. Still, already in 1947 A.P. Burlai at a regional exhibition in Zaporizhzhya exhibits the portrait of a foundry man. From 1948 A.P. Burlai is a member of the Kazan association “Tatar artist”, where he creates a number of significant works, such as “Oil prospectors”, “Oil extraction”, “Gorki and Stasov at the Repins workshop”, “Gorki among the writers of Soviet East” and others. From 1950 he is a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He actively participates in all-union and republican exhibitions. For fruitful creative and public activity the republican H. Tukai prize is appointed to Aleksey Petrovich Burlai, and in 1957 the title “The Honoured Art Worker of Arts of Тatar ASSR” is awarded to him. In 1963 of A.P. Burlai moves to Volgograd. Here he takes interest in congenial theme of rural people. A number of works he dedicates to the history of new life in Don region, to the workers of Don land. The new works of A.P.Burlai are devoted to the different stages of establishment of Soviet power in Tsaritsyn and defense of the city in the period of the Stalingrad battle. He leads active social life. Many works of the Honoured Art Worker of Tatar ASSR A.P. Burlai are exhibited in such cities as Moscow, Gorki, Kazan, Volgograd, Krasnoyarsk and others.

Founder of Zaporozhye museum-gallery of applied ceramics and art creativity of Ilya and Alexey Burlai

Batalkina (Burlai) Valentina Illyinichna was born on 17.09.1951 in the city of Zaporozhye in Ukraine in the family of Maria Burlai (18.09.1915 – 20.06.1998), nee Hiltmann and Ilya Burlai (04.08.1919 – 08.07.1997).

Works of Valentina Batalkinas authorship


Mockup structure of “half-timbered” type. The framework is a spatial section of diagonal beams (arranged at different angles) made of softwood. These beams can be seen from the outside of the mockup structure, they impart some characteristic appearance to the structure: the space between the beams is filled with adobe material and brick. It was built after the drawings of Valentina Batalkina in 2007 to cover the entrance to the underground part of the museum-gallery.

Metallic compositional articles of the interior of the museum-gallery were manufactured under supervision and after drawings of Valentina Batalkina




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