Pyotr Reichet

Born in 1953 in Odessa, Pyotr Reichet graduated from the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad. A second-generation artist and talented painter of portraits, abstract conceptual works, art objects and installations, Reichet also drew with oil pastel, charcoal, sanguine, and ink. Pyotr Reichet was a weathered globetrotter, geomorphological engineer, member of the Russian Geographical Society, and explorer of the Extreme North with three polar expeditions standing to his credit. On 14 September 2013, he died in a tragic accident during his last Yamal–Arctic 2013 expedition.