Selected dates:

October 15, 1892

Born in the village of Beshenkovichi, Vitebsk province (Russian Empire, now the Republic of Belarus) into a Jewish family.

1906

He was admitted to the Vitebsk School of Drawing and Painting by Y. Peng.

1910

Moved to St. Petersburg, studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts.

1911-1913

He studied at the private St. Petersburg studios of M. Bernstein, and then M. V. Dobuzhinsky.

1912-1914

Participated in folklore and ethnographic expeditions along the Jewish Pale of Settlement in cities and towns of southwestern Ukraine.

1916

He exhibited his works for the first time at the Exhibition of Jewish Artists in Moscow.

1917

Participated in the Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Jewish Artists in Petrograd.

1918

The artist returned to Vitebsk, where he graduated from the Artistic and Practical Institute (now the Vitebsk Folk Art School).

1918

Participated in the exhibition Jewish folk art in Vitebsk.

1919

Participant of the 1st State exhibition of paintings by local and Moscow artists in Vitebsk.

1920-1930s

He worked on the monumental woodcut series "The Past", trying to preserve the memory of the disappearing world of Jewish culture.

1920

On the basis of the material collected during the expeditions, the artist published the album "Jewish Folk Ornament" from 26 linocuts.

1922

Elected vice-rector for economic affairs at the Vitebsk Artistic and Practical Institute.

1922-1923

He taught at the graphic workshop of the Vitebsk Artistic and Practical Institute, at the People's Art School and at the Jewish Pedagogical College.

September 23, 1923

Yu.Peng, S.Yudovin, E.Minin and a group of students made a collective statement of resignation and left the institute.

1923-1928

He worked in Leningrad as a scientific secretary and curator at the Museum of the St. Petersburg Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society.

1926

Personal exhibition in Vitebsk.

1941-mid 1942

During the war, Yudovin lived in besieged Leningrad, then the artist was evacuated to the village of Karabikha near Yaroslavl. In Karabikha he worked on the series "Nekrasov's Places".

1944

The artist returned to Leningrad and completed work on a series of engravings "Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War".

1944

Personal exhibition in Yaroslavl.

1945

The artist released an album of autolithographs "Leningrad".

1946

Created a series of postcards "Views of Leningrad".

1948

Engravings "Leningrad in the days of the Great Patriotic War" were published in the form of an album.

1949

Created a series of postcards "Leningrad Today".

December 5, 1954

The artist died in Leningrad.

1956

Posthumous solo exhibition in Leningrad.

1991

Posthumous solo exhibition in Jerusalem.

1992

Posthumous solo exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth (Vitebsk).

2015

Posthumous solo exhibition in New York.