Soviet Ukrainian painter. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Fedor Afanasyevich Samusev was born on September 6 (September 19, according to a new style) in 1913 in the village of. Novoraysk (Bryansk region of Russia). In 1937 he graduated from the Penza Art College, where he studied under N.F. Petrova, IS. Goryushkina – Sorokopudova. After his graduation he entered the Kiev State Art Institute, where he studied at AA Shovkunenko. During the Great Patriotic War he continued his evacuation training in the Ukrainian branch of the United Art Institute of the All-Russian Academy of Arts – first in Samarkand, then in Zagorsk near Moscow. After liberation, Kiev returned home where in 1945 he graduated from the Kiev Art Institute. Since 1945 – a participant in republican, all-Union and foreign art exhibitions.
