08.11.1904 – 04.10.1973

Boris Vasilievich Timin was born in Samara. Graduated from the Samara Art College (1927). Until 1931 he taught at school at the Pokhvistnevo station of the Samara railway. Member and participant of exhibitions of the Youth Association of the Association of Artists of the Revolution.

In Voronezh since 1933. He was one of the organizers of the Voronezh Union of Soviet Artists.

During the Great Patriotic War, he was engaged in the illustration of the army newspaper “Son of the Motherland”. Leaving the troops on location, Boris Vasilyevich was repeatedly forced to work under enemy fire, showing courage and endurance. More than a dozen masterfully executed posters and portraits of distinguished soldiers and commanders were published in the army newspaper. At the same time, Timin took an active part in the release of TASS Windows. Along with his portrait and genre sketches, the newspaper also published caricatures of the artist. As part of the army edition, the artist Timin went from Moscow to Berlin.

After the War, the artist worked in various genres: thematic painting, landscape, portrait, still life. From 1948 to 1950, as well as from 1957 to 1959, he was chairman of the board of the Voronezh branch of the Union of Artists.

Author of the paintings: “Chapaev’s Headquarters” (1941), “Entry of the First Cavalry Army in Voronezh in 1919”, “Liberation of Voronezh from the Nazi invaders” (1953, 1958; both together with MI Likhachev and AG Khazarov) , portraits of V.V. Belopolsky (1949), V.F. Burimov (1949), A.V. Polyakova (1951), A.N. Korolkova (1953) and others, as well as front-line sketches and a series of graphic sheets “They Fought for the Motherland.” Several of his paintings are presented in the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy.

A personal exhibition of Timin’s works was held at the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy (1965); posthumous – in the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists (1974; together with the works of K.M. Stakhovsky).

Boris Timin died in 1973 in Voronezh.