The artist and writer Shinkarev will be buried at the Smolensky cemetery of St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Shinkarev, a Soviet and Russian artist, writer, and one of the founders of the Mitki creative association, will be buried on Thursday, April 23, at the Smolensky Cemetery in St. Petersburg. This was announced on April 21 by a friend of the deceased, artist Dmitry Shagin.

The farewell ceremony will begin at 12:00. It will be held in the Church of the Savior of the Uncreated Image on Konyushennaya Square.

"Then at 13:30 Moscow time there will be a funeral at the Smolensky cemetery," he told TASS.

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The artist's ashes will be transported to Moscow.

Shinkarev's death at the age of 73 became known on April 19. In the 1980s, together with Alexander Florensky, Dmitry Shagin and others, he became one of the founders of the Mitki group, formulated the ideology of the movement. The artist is known as the ideologist of the Mitkovsky movement, the co-author of the "Mitkov Canon" and the author of texts that defined the aesthetics of the association. Subsequently, the painter's relatives stated that the cause of Shinkarev's death was heart failure.