Yulia Charniauskaya announced on Facebook the death of art historian Yury Abdurakhmanau, creator of the Chaim Soutine Museum in Smilavichy.
Yury Abdurakhmanau. Photo: facebook.com/urij.abdurahmanov.2025
Yury Abdurakhmanau was born in 1959. In 1984, he graduated from the Faculty of Translators at the Minsk Institute of Foreign Languages. For some time, he studied and worked abroad — in France, Belgium, and Algeria.
He was the founder and director of the private cultural institution "Heritage and Time" in the urban settlement of Smilavichy, Chervien District. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the "Chaim Soutine Space" Museum in Smilavichy and initiated the creation of a hall in this museum dedicated to the artist Shraga Tzarfіn.
He was also the author of a number of books and publications about artists of the School of Paris. In 2016-2017, he gave lectures on this school on "Culture" radio.
He curated various exhibitions of contemporary Belarusian artists in Belarus, Lithuania, and France. He was the chief curator of the exhibition "Shraga Tzarfіn. Leading to the Light," which took place at the National Art Museum of Belarus in 2019-2020.
He was also one of the founders of the international conference "Soutine Readings." In addition, he was the author of the idea, screenwriter, and producer of the documentary film "Wandering Star from Smilavichy," dedicated to the artist Shraga Tzarfіn.
He was a member of ICFA (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Fine Arts).
"Kind, intelligent, ironic, very decent. Where he grew up, on the outskirts of the empire, in a small village, he had good teachers — repressed candidates and doctors of sciences. They taught him a lot — courage, resilience, which was not immediately apparent beneath his somewhat 'French-like' charm, his sophistication. I, who knew him, though not intimately, but during difficult times, knew this courage and this decency," wrote Yulia Charniauskaya.
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