Kazakhstan Pavilion

Sergey Kalmykov was born in 1891 in Samarkand. He studied in Petersburg and Moscow, where he was a member of the art studios of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. In the 1930s, Kalmykov, at the invitation of the composer Yevgeny Brusilovsky, moved to Alma-Ata to work on the design of the performances of the Kazakh Musical Opera and Ballet Theatre (now Abay Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre), and spent the rest of his life there. Kalmykov called himself the Genius of the First Rank of the Absolute Interplanetary Category and developed ideas and theories on art, science, architecture, society, and human genius.