terrible war did it with love, trying to capture the new young generation. painting by valentin viktorovich volkova also called by university students, became symbolic for the first post-war years . young people looking to the future, before which all paths were open in the country, new professions were born, specialties, new buildings , discoveries were made, a new creative generation was born, the future elite of the soviet era. a unique direction in painting, the theme of war, was born through the eyes of artists, many of whom were also participants in the theme of the renaissance of the republic. i. of course, they created, first of all , works devoted to the theme of the great patriotic war partisan movement. this can also be said about ivan the khrembchik, the defenders of the berd fortress and melandovich savitsky, these are the vitebsk gates, the partisan madonna. this shchemilev is also a veteran of the great patriotic war, and my birth, the work of artists went in parallel with the work of our e people who worked actively to revive the settings, minsk here even there are also works specia