and passionately continued for over 30 years. In his last years, Kolyada travelled, painted and exhibited outside the USSR in Australia and France. He died in his beloved home town of Moscow in 1996 at the age of 89. Career Besides a great number of group exhibitions, including at the prestigious Tretyakov Gallery and the Moscow City Hall for the 850th Anniversary of Moscow foundation (1997); Kolyada's long career is marked by important solo exhibitions in the Krimsky-Val Gallery and the Glinka Museum, Three important Moscow Museums hold a dozen of Kolyada's works acquired when the artist was still alive: The State Tretyakov Gallery, The Moscow Historical Museum and the Lounatcharsky Museum. Since his passing, his work has received increasing recognition and interest abroad, with some of his works included in 5 different exhibitions at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis in the United States. His artworks are also held in a number of private collections in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia and Russia. Exhibitions 1947 All-Union Art Exhibition - Artists from the Moscow region 1949 All-Union Art Exhibition - Moscow 1953 All-Union Art Exhibition – Moscow 1959 All-Union Art Exhibition "Portrait Painters" - Moscow 1966 Exhibition of works: "In memory of Moscow's Defenders". (Dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the defeat of Fascist troops near Moscow) 1968 All-Union Art Exhibition - Artists from the Moscow area: "My region of Moscow" 1977 All-Union Art Exhibition: " The Self-Portrait in the Soviet and Russian Art" Tretiakov Gallery - Moscow (Catalogue p 50) 1980 Solo exhibition - Glinka Museum- Moscow 1980 All-Union Art Exhibition: "Moscow in the Soviet and Russian Art", Tretiakov Gallery - Moscow (Catalogue p 143) 1985 Solo exhibition: "My Moscow" (In Honour of Artist's 75th Birthday) 1990 Solo exhibition - Stoliarski School of Music – Brisbane, Australia 1991 Solo exhibition - Russian Club – Brisbane, Australia 1991 Group exhibition - Central House of the Artists - New Tretiakov Gallery "Russian artists of the 1920s and 1930s" (Catalogue, 1991, p. 60) 1992 Solo exhibition – Etretat, France 1994 Retrospective exhibition "Central House of the Artist" - Krimsky-val, Moscow; Paris; Etretat; Moscow 1997 Group exhibition at the "White House - Moscow" for the 850th anniversary of the foundation of Moscow 1999 Solo exhibition - St Pierre des Corps - Tours, France 2003 Solo exhibition - St Hilaire de Riez, France 2006 Group exhibition – "Museum of Russian Art",