Selected dates:

May 18, 1969

Born in Soligorsk (BSSR, today the Republic of Belarus).

He graduated from the 8th grade of the Soligorsk secondary school and entered a vocational school, where he studied as an electrician, while attending an art school. After leaving school, he worked at the Soligorsk salt mines.

1990

After an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Minsk Theater and Art Institute, Oleg Elizarov took preparatory courses and entered the art and graphics department of the Vitebsk State Pedagogical University. Already in his first years, Elizarov was distinguished by good preparation, he performed all classical artistic tasks with great skill. The young artist began to use a minimum of colors, experimenting with the addition of various materials: chalk, cement, gelatin, thus coming to his "white style".

1995

When writing the diploma, the artist finally decided on the author's handwriting. In the same year he became a laureate of the "Art Session" in Vitebsk.

After defending his diploma, the young artist was invited to Polotsk. Oleg Elizarov was sent to work in the Children's Art School, where he fully revealed his style and technique. At first he lived in a hostel built for the workers of a local enterprise, and then moved to a workshop.

It was during the Polotsk period that the original style of the author was finally formed, in most of his works the main compositional element was Polotsk architecture, the white, festive mood of the city - the cradle of Belarusian statehood. In Polotsk, Elizarov founded the association of young artists "White Circle".

2000

After five years of work, Oleg Elizarov had to leave the workshop and move to his small homeland in Soligorsk, where he got a job at a local art school.

April 5, 2010

The artist died on the closing day of his last exhibition organized by friends in Soligorsk.