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{{Infobox artist
| name          = Ilya Kabakov
| image         = "The Man Who Flew in to Space From His Apartment"("L'home que va volar a l'espai des del seu apartament").jpg
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| caption       = Ilya Kabakov gives instructions for the installation "The Man Who will Fly into Space From His Apartment"
(contracted; show full)ktor Pivovarov]] and [[Vladimir Yankilevsky]], the group also included [[Oleg Vassiliev (painter)|Oleg Vassiliev]], [[Ülo Sooster]] and others with the same pre-occupation.  The artist's studios were also used as venues to show and exchange ideas about unofficial art.  The majority of visual artists who became part of the [[Soviet Nonconformist Art|'Sretensky Boulevard Group']] worked officially as book illustrators and graphic designers. They were in strong contrast to a group called the [[
Soviet Nonconformist Art|'Lianozovo Group']] artists, a loose group around [[Oscar Rabin (artist)|Oscar Rabin]], who were primarily abstractionists.  This group in particular was often harassed and in some cases imprisoned or exiled.  It is apparent that Kabakov and his associates were conformist as a survival strategy, a tactic which began at the art academies. Kabakov reports that during school and throughout his early career he did everything expected of him and, on the surface, accepted the Soviet reality.

====The Russian Series====
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