Selected dates:

April 27, 1930

Born in Minsk (BSSR, Today the Republic of Belarus).

He studied at the Minsk Music School and performed at student concerts, performing encore works for the violin. he could have become a famous violinist, but the war began. the family was evacuated to Ulyanovsk. Mai painted signboards and slogans for the holidays for Ulyanovsk factories - for this they gave clothes and food.

1944

Returning to Minsk, May had a clear desire to become an artist .

1952

Graduated from the Minsk Art College .

1958

Graduated from the Moscow Art Institute named after Surikov .

1958

He began teaching at the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute (now the Belarusian State Academy of Arts ).

1980

Became a professor .

2001-2011

He worked as the head of the easel painting department.

1962

He was a member of the board of the Union of Artists of the BSSR .

1988-2001

He worked as chairman of the Minsk City Association of Jewish Culture named after Izi Harik . He contributed to the emergence of the first Jewish Sunday school in Minsk (1990).

In the first half of the 1990s As chairman of the public commission for the creation of the Pit Memorial Complex, he dealt with the problems of perpetuating the memory of the prisoners of the Minsk ghetto.

1995

He was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper "Aviv Hadash" (Minsk). He was vice-president of the Union of Belarusian Jewish Public Organizations and Communities .

2005

For many years of fruitful and pedagogical activity, a significant personal contribution to the development of the fine arts of Belarus, he was awarded the Order of Francysk Skaryna .

2010

He was awarded the Order of Honor . He is also a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize of Belarus .

2017

Died in Minsk.

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The artist's paintings are kept in the National Art Museum of Belarus, the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, art and private collections in Belarus, Russia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Belgium, Germany, Israel, Italy and USA.