1913 - 1986 Soviet Ukrainian artist, painter. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Zinaida Ilyinichna Zatsepina was born on October 29, 1913 in the settlement of New Kalitva, Voronezh region in Russia. From 1933 to 1936, she studied at the Tambov Artistic and Pedagogical Technical School, and from 1937 to 1939 at the Penza Art College under IS. Goryushkina-Sorokopudova. In 1939, she became a student of the Kiev State Art Institute. Her teachers were F.G. Krichevsky, K.D. Trokhimenko, AA Shovkunenko and A.I. Fomin. During the Great Patriotic War she continued her 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. The training was conducted by such outstanding artists as I.E. Grabar, S.V. Gerasimov, P.D. Pokarzhevsky, I.N. Shtilman and K.N. Yeleva. In 1944, the artist returned from the evacuation and was enlisted in the workshop of Professor AA. Shovkunenko at the Kiev Art Institute. In 1948, Zinaida Zatsepina graduated from the Institute with her diploma work, “Kindergarten”. She married fellow artist, P.S. Sulimenko. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Worked in the field of easel painting. Author of portraits, landscapes, still lifes and genre paintings. Since 1949, Zatsepina was an exhibitor in city and republican art exhibitions. In 1954, she took part in the All-Union exhibition of works by marine painters, opened in Moscow from February to March at the Artist’s House; and from April to May in the Central House of the Soviet Army. Since that time she was been an active participant in the All-Union and foreign art exhibitions. Personal exhibitions were held in India (1959), Kiev (1977) and Penza (1979). Her works are represented in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, in art museums in Odessa, Poltava, Nikolaev, Simferopol, in private collections in Ukraine and abroad. She is listed on page 361 of Matthew Bown's, A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters.