Andrei Andreevich Milnikov (Mylnikov) (Russian Soviet, German, 1919-2012) oil painting on board, Hot Day, 1974, depicting a rural river landscape. Signed and dated lower right. An original stamp of the Ministry of Culture USSR on the back. References: A. Kaganovich Andrey Andreevich Mylnikov, catalogue raisonne, Artist of the RSFSR, Leningrad, USSR, 1986. Andrei Mylnikov, a Soviet, Russian painter, graphic artist, muralist, teacher. Hero of Socialist Labor (1990). People's Artist of the USSR (1976). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1984), the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951), the State Prize of the USSR (1977) and the State Prize of the RSFSR (1979). One of the key representatives of the Russian realistic school of the second half of the 20th century. His artistic heritage consists of monumental paintings, panels, mosaics, epic paintings, portraits, still lifes, landscapes, sculptures and graphic works. One of a kind artwork.