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Responding to requests, the AOG has created a program to allow Academy Graduates escorted access to the cadet area. We will make every effort to arrange necessary escorts whenever contacted, 10-business day notice is needed to schedule a volunteer.

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AOG members who wish to visit a cadet, Academy staff members or department should contact the cadet/staff member/department directly so they may arrange for your escort. AOG Customer Service will be pleased to provide telephone numbers or email addresses of individuals or departments.

Most of the Academy is open to all tourists. You may visit the Visitors Center, Chapel, Arnold Hall, the Field House, and Hall of Excellence without an escort. The Cadet Area (Terrazzo) has always been closed to the public, including graduates, and is now fenced. Special access is required to tour the Cadet Area. The AOG will make every effort to provide tours of the Cadet Area at times requested for the member, on occasion, AOG staff may not be available to conduct them. If you are not a member, AOG Customer Service will be pleased to sign you up for membership.

Tours will be conducted during normal duty days. Cadet activities within the cadet area and weather, though, could cause cancellation of tours on certain days. No tours are authorized when basic cadets are training in the cadet area, during reunion weekends, holidays, or when Cadet Wing training dictates. An AOG volunteer will contact you to arrange your tour.

The AOG tour program supports purchasing Memorial Cabinets for graduates killed in recent worldwide conflicts. The six foot, wooden, display cabinets are placed in the deceased graduate's squadron and filled with personal and military tributes. Any contribution made to the tour program will go directly to this endeavor.

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Air Force Academy unveils latest construction projects

C OLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - The United States Air Force Academy rolled out several projects on Thursday, three of which are expected to be finished by the end of this year.

The Hosmer Visitor Center

The Air Force Academy is building a new visitors center outside of the north gate of the campus. USAFA officials said this center will have several exhibits that will emulate the full experience of being a cadet to inspire the next generation at the academy. The center will not only be a visitors center for the academy but will also double as a Colorado State visitors center as well. Being visible from the north and south side of I-25, accessibility was a point of emphasis for this new facility. Despite being slightly smaller than the current facility, it’s hard to miss with roofing that signifies an aircraft turning. The project is expected to finish in May and will be open to the public in December of 2025

Polaris Hotel

Next door to the visitors center, the hotel will be the only one in the country with immersive flight simulators. It will be a 375-room resort-style hotel with mid-century modern architectural style similar to what exists at the academy. The hotel includes 6 restaurants and bars, a 6-room full-service spa, a fitness room, and multiple event spaces. The hotel is expected to be available to the public in November.

Falcon Stadium East Club

Tickets will be harder to come by this season at Falcon Stadium after building a new premium seating section in the east wing. According to athletic officials overseeing the project, the capacity of the stadium will shrink from nearly 47,000 people to 39,000 after the 1,200-seat club is built. The premium seating club will feature its own entrance, open-air hospitality decks, food and beverage options, a merchandise area, and a ticket office. The premium seating project is part of a 90-million-dollar modernization project for the stadium and is expected to be finished by the opening day of the football season in September of this year.

Madera Cyber Innovation Center

This new building will house the Department of Computer and Cyber Sciences to serve more than 1,400 cadets. The facility will serve as a tech center for programs and curriculum to educate cyber operators and will also have courses in cybersecurity and data protection. The school will feature a secure classroom facility to simulate real-world military exercises, an indoor drone facility, a visualization lab for processing large amounts of data, and a cyber research lab. The school will have fiber internet capabilities, having the fastest internet possible, and is expected to be built by August of this year.

Cadet Chapel

The Cadet Chapel is still currently under restoration. The USAFA is addressing water intrusion in the ceiling that existed since the chapel was built in 1962. There was caulking installed when it was built that didn’t prevent water breaches in the aluminum roofing. The chapel is under heavy scaffolding and construction crews on the project are installing an aluminum water barrier beneath the aluminum exterior of the chapel after the final piece of the aluminum was removed in March. Currently, construction crews are testing the integrity of this water barrier using a jet engine that propulses water at the barrier and simulates 8in of water in 15 min. The chapel is expected to be built and open to the public by the year 2027.

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Air Force student pilot struck, killed by train near Laughlin AFB in Texas

Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas on May 22, 2022. (Rose L. Thayer/Stars and Stripes)

ATLANTA — An Air Force student pilot was killed last week when he was struck by a train in Del Rio, Texas, near Laughlin Air Force Base, where he was stationed, military and law enforcement officials said Monday.

Second Lt. James Chitika was found dead off base April 16 near railroad tracks in Del Rio, officials at Laughlin said in a news release. Chitika was struck by a train late that night, according to the Val Verde Sheriff’s Office.

Chitika, 24, was a 2022 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., and was learning to fly jets at Laughlin with the 47th Flying Training Wing, according to the service. He was a native of Atlanta and is survived by his mother, father and sister, according to the Air Force.

“Our deepest condolences are with the Chitika family, classmates and friends of James during this difficult time,” Col. Kevin Davidson, 47th Flying Training Wing commander, said in a prepared statement. “As we work through this tragedy, let’s focus on uplifting one another.”

The Val Verde Sheriff’s Office was continuing the investigation into Chitika’s death, Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez told Atlanta’s 11Alive television news on Saturday.

Martinez said Chitika had been seen walking along the train tracks before his death. He also said deputies found Chitika’s truck about 3 miles from where he died, according to the news station.

A Val Verde Sheriff’s Office official said Monday that the probe was ongoing, and no one was immediately available to discuss the incident.

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Unusually, the sound of an airplane engine roared through the grounds of the U.S. Air Force Academy on Thursday afternoon.

Alright, perhaps the sound itself wasn’t so unusual to hear on academy grounds, but in context, this engine’s roar sure was. It was mounted to a crane, blasting the equivalent of 60-mile-per-hour winds against a test section of aluminum sheets as a fire hose sprayed a simulated rainstorm.

“We run about eight inches of rain in 15 minutes,” said Marty Rickett, one of the project managers on the massive eight-year restoration of the Academy’s iconic aluminum-spired Cadet Chapel. The imitation squalls are meant to test the waterproofing of the new exterior design; persistent leaks resulting from the chapel’s original construction prompted a complete overhaul of the chapel in the first place.

The test amounted to one small piece of multiple major building projects currently underway at the academy, amounting to hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, public-private partnerships, and individual donor funds seeking to revitalize the aging military campus.

Academy officials said it’s the most construction taking place on the grounds at one time since its founding.

During a tour of the five main construction sites, media were invited to see the progress on the projects, which range from intended improvements to the experience of academy visitors to significant investments in educating cadets about the latest in artificial intelligence and cyber warfare techniques.

The Cadet Chapel

With an anticipated $240 million price tag, the chapel restoration is the largest, most complex, and expensive project of the bunch. It will also take the longest.

Cost-saving necessities during the chapel’s initial construction in the 1950s and 60s led to the sophisticated rain gutter system originally imagined by architect Walter Netsch Jr. being abandoned in favor of 32 miles of caulking on the building’s exterior seams. The change led to immediate leaks, and despite decades of the academy attempting to seal the building in other ways, the damage was extensive enough to prompt the complete restoration in 2019.

Unanticipated levels of asbestos, water damage, and other construction flaws have led to the project’s cost and timeline ballooning from initial estimates — work was initially supposed to be completed on the chapel by November 2022. Current academy architect Duane Boyle said the more than one million cubic feet of asbestos removed from the building make it “the largest asbestos abatement project in the history of Colorado.”

The final piece of original aluminum exterior cladding was removed from the chapel a year ago. Its exposed interior skeleton currently sits bare beneath a temporary 14-story cubic enclosure.   

Boyle said it would have actually cost less to tear the chapel down and rebuild it from scratch, but its place on the National Historic Registry prevented that option to be considered.

Officials now expect the initial restoration of the building to be complete by the end of 2026, which will be followed by the removal of the enclosure and remediation of the surrounding area. It’s expected to open once again for services by the end of 2027.

Visitor Center

A four-tiered ascending roof of symbolic jet wings dominates the design of the $40 million new academy visitor center taking shape just off Interstate 25 on the eastern edge of the campus.

Academy Visitor Experience Chief Lisa Neener said construction is about 65 percent complete on a building intended to rebrand the public-facing story of the institution. 

“The initial visitor center was built in the 1980s,” Neener said. “A lot has changed and so we're looking for everything from a modern experience and just really bringing it up to date and making it technologically advanced.”

Named in honor of retired Lt. Gen. Bradley Hosmer, both the academy’s first graduate and its first alum superintendent, the center is the final piece of the Colorado Springs City for Champions initiative and will also serve as an Official Colorado Welcome Center. It’s expected to open to the public in December 2025. 

Polaris Hotel

Across a highway-spanning concrete walkway from the visitor center site lies the 375-room Hotel Polaris and conference center. It’s expected to open this November.

“We've strived to emulate the mid-century modern design aesthetic that the Academy is renowned for,” said the hotel’s general manager, Curtis Bova. “We've really tried to infuse that into the building itself.”

When bonds are paid off in an expected 15 years, ownership of the hotel will shift to the Air Force Academy Foundation, which it expects will generate tens of millions of dollars annually for the academy.

Falcon Stadium

The eastern side of Falcon Stadium is undergoing its own $90 million modernization project, including new box seating, space for food and merchandise vendors, and a new entrance plaza.

The Academy hopes to have it completed early in this fall’s football season.

The Madera Cyber Innovation Center

Finally, a $58 million artificial intelligence and cyber warfare center is set for completion by the Fall 2024 semester. 

An academy press release said the building will “bring academia, industry, and military cyber operators together to educate and train future officers of the Air Force and the Space Force.”

That includes labs where cadets will program missions for autonomous drones, missions that will even see the airborne bots zooming through the center’s hallways. 

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Local media gets tour of Falcon Stadium East Club

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• Full stadium lighting modernization and renovation at Falcon Stadium
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• At conclusion of the project the new Falcon Stadium seating capacity: 39,441

Louisiana student appointed to U.S. Air Force Academy following Speaker Mike Johnson's nomination

A northwest Louisiana high school student has been appointed to the U.S. Air Force Academy following his nomination from the United States Speaker of the House.

Speaker Mike Johnson said, “Reagan has excelled on the field, in the classroom, and in extracurricular leadership roles throughout his life. I was honored to nominate him to the Air Force Academy, and am certain he will be an exceptional cadet.”

He continued by saying, "North Louisiana possesses a deep connection to our national defense, and we are thankful Reagan is continuing this great tradition. We are praying for his success."

Loyola College Prep senior Reagan Coyle plans to attend the Air Force Academy upon graduation from Loyola in May. “Attending the Air Force Academy is something I have been preparing to do for years now,” said Coyle.

Admission into the U.S. Air Force Academy is extensive requiring academic and extracurricular records, leadership activities, physical fitness test results and a required nomination.

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"I would like to thank God for allowing me this unbelievable opportunity," said Coyle. "I would not be able to do this without Loyola preparing me to succeed at the Academy, and without the support and encouragement from those closest to me."

Throughout high school, Coyle has served on SGA holding a class officer position, maintained a 4.29 GPA and been a leader on the football and basketball teams. He was also named an All State Baseball Player and an All District Football Player.

"Reagan has worked hard both in the classroom and in athletics over the past four years, and he has grown tremendously," said Anna Beth Clark, Director of Admissions. "His nomination is the result of diligence, humility, and determination. Loyola is so proud of his accomplishments and know that he will make us proud in the Air Force."

Coyle plans to start at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado this summer for basic training and will begin classes with the rest of his classmates in the fall.

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Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at [email protected].

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Latest headlines | (photos): united states air force academy band ensemble, blue delta, and fort morgan high school musicians entertain crowd on saturday.

The Morgan Community College Center for Arts and Community Enrichment (CACE) presented the United States Air Force Academy band ensemble, Blue Delta, which collaborated with Fort Morgan High School musicians on Saturday evening at the High School. The evening performance was a variety of musical genres that interacted with the audience. Information about the USAFA Blue Delta Band can be found by visiting www.music.af.mil/Bands/US-Air-Force-Academy-Band/Ensembles/Blue-Steel/ View the schedule for upcoming CACE events at www.morgancc.edu/CACE (Robin Northrup/Fort Morgan Times)

Suzanna Spears with CACE welcomed the audience and thanked the USAFA band ensemble who performed with Fort Morgan High School musicians on Saturday evening. The evening performance was a variety of musical genres that interacted with the audience. Information about the USAFA Blue Delta Band can be found by visiting www.music.af.mil/Bands/US-Air-Force-Academy-Band/Ensembles/Blue-Steel/ View the schedule for upcoming CACE events at www.morgancc.edu/CACE (Robin Northrup/Fort Morgan Times)

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Summer Seminar

See yourself at the academy.

Summer Seminar at the United States Air Force Academy gives students the opportunity to experience life on campus firsthand. Specially designed for high school juniors heading into their senior year, Summer Seminar allows participants to live like a U.S. Air Force Academy cadet for four days.

Applications are closed . Applications for Summer Seminar 2025 will open December 1, 2024.

The Summer Seminar dates for 2024: Session A: June 4-7 (In Person) Session B: June 11-14 (In Person) Session C: June 17-19 (Virtual) Summer Seminar 2024 is subject to change in dates and status whether in-person or virtual. Please monitor this page regularly for updates.

What to Expect

During Summer Seminar, you will be assigned to an “element” or group, with an upper-class cadet as your Element Leader. Your Element Leader will be with you almost 24 hours a day as your mentor and guide.

Be sure to check out our Summer Seminar FAQ to learn more.

Along with your element, you will:

• Live in cadet dormitories and eat at the cadet dining facility.
• Explore academic facilities and research labs.
• Participate in a variety of workshops, including some to assist with your application.

Selection Process

Students are selected to participate in Summer Seminar based on a “whole-person concept” that includes demonstrated leadership experience or potential in extracurricular and community activities, athletics and academics. Historically, more than 3,200 people apply and roughly 640 are selected.

Please keep in mind the selection process to attend.

Summer Seminar is NOT in any way a prerequisite for admission to the Academy. It is also NOT a prescreening or preselection program. All students applying for Summer Seminar are encouraged to apply for appointment to the Academy, regardless of selection for Summer Seminar. If you are not selected, it should not be interpreted as a reflection of your qualifications or ability to successfully pursue an appointment.

How to Apply

Our online Summer Seminar application opens December 1 and closes January 15. The last day to open an application for Summer Seminar is January 10. You will go through the same application portal as regular cadets when applying to Summer Seminar. The application link will be posted here when the application period opens.

Selections for Summer Seminar are based on the qualifications of each applicant and not on a first-come, first-served basis. Under no circumstances will late applications be accepted.

If you have questions about the program, please email [email protected] .

You will need the following information available to complete the application:

• Full legal name
• Mailing address/home phone/email address
• High school and junior class size
• Social Security number
• Current high school GPA of 3.0 or above
• Grades for English and math English (ninth grade–first semester of 11th grade) and math (algebra I and II, geometry, trigonometry, physics, chemistry)
• One or more test scores (Optional): PSAT, PreACT, ACT or SAT

Additional Requirement Personal Profile

A personal profile is required as part of the application process. Instructions are included on the application website. The profile is your opportunity to showcase your leadership background and other accomplishments. You will receive an email (at the email address indicated in your application), and your status will show on your application.

“I knew there’d be challenges, but that’s part of the reason why I wanted to come here. The best thing about the Academy is the opportunities that come with it.”

Historically, the registration fee for Summer Seminar is approximately $300. Fees are determined when registration opens, or earlier if possible. Lodging, meals, workshop supplies, as well as seminar “uniforms” and accessories will be provided to attendees.

If selected, you are responsible for funding and arranging your own transportation to and from Colorado Springs and the Academy. Limited transportation to and from the Colorado Springs Airport may be available on arrival and departure days. If you are selected and accept our offer, more detailed travel instructions will be provided. There may be an opportunity for a limited number of scholarships to attend this program after selections are made.

Experience the Birthplace of Leaders

How does it feel to trace the footsteps of some of our nation’s most revered leaders? Come see the United States Air Force Academy for yourself and find out.

If You Have Questions, Get Answers

Our outreach programs can help you determine whether the U.S. Air Force Academy is right for you as well as help you make your application as complete and competitive as possible.

How Can You Learn More?

The majority of our events are held in the fall and spring, with fewer events in the summer months. To learn more about the U.S. Air Force Academy, check for an event that may be convenient for you.

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Nikolai Efimovich Timkov

Nikolai Efimovich Timkov was born August 12, 1912, at a settlement of Nakhichevanskaya Dacha close to Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire. His parents, Efim Yegorovich Timkov and Vasilisa Timofeevna Ablyazova were peasants from the Saratov province. In 1892, they moved to Rostov-on-Don. A father worked as a general worker. The family had four older children. Parents died in 1924, when Nikolai was twelve years old. Care of him took the older sisters. Wira village. 1956 In 1927, Nikolai Timkov graduated 8 classes of secondary school and enrolled in the Rostov Art College, which was headed by A. Chinenov, who was landscape painter, a pupil of Vasily Polenov and a big fan of Isaac Levitan. In 1930, Timkov graduated from Art College. In 1931, he went to Moscow, where he met with Pavel Radimov and other Moscow artists of AKhR Association (Association of Artists of the Revolution). Timkov works in "Izogiz" edition as a general worker, then enrolls Association "Vsekohudozhnik" as artist-designer. At the same time he to educate ourselves in the Tretyakov Gallery and much working on plein air, using from time to time the benevolent advice Mikhail Nesterov and Sergey Malyutin. At the Radimov's apartment has been meeting of Nikolai Timkov and Isaak Brodsky, who has played a big role in the fate of the artist. After seeing his work, Brodsky advised Nikolai Timkov to go to Leningrad to continue his art education. In 1933 Nikolai Timkov together with Alexander Laktionov arrives in Leningrad and entered the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the All-Russian Academy of Arts. He studied of Mikhail Bernshtein, Arcady Rylov, Alexander Lubimov, Vladimir Serov. In 1939 Nikolai Timkov graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Isaak Brodsky workshop with the rank of artist of painting. His degree work was a painting titled "The Day off in suburb".[3] In one year with Timkov Institute graduates Piotr Belousov, Mikhail Kozell, Lev Orekhov, Aleksei Gritsai, Elena Skuin, Gleb Verner, Liya Ostrova, Boris Sherbakov, and other young artists who later became famous Soviet painters and art educators. Academicheskaya Dacha. 1972 After graduation, Nikolai Timkov was called up for military service in the Baltic Fleet, which continued until 1946. During the Great Patriotic War and blockade Nikolai Timkov was among defenders of Leningrad. During a brief visits to the city, he created a series of graphic works (gouache, watercolor), depicting the Siege of Leningrad (now in the collection of the State Russian Museum and the Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg). Timkov participated in all Exhibitions of the defenders of Leningrad, also in Exhibition titled "The Heroics of Soviet Front and Rear" in Moscow in Tretyakov Gallery in 1943, as well as creating the greatest during the war years Exhibition "The Heroic defense of Leningrad", opened in 1944 and marked the beginning of the Museum of Defense of Leningrad. Timkov was awarded the medals "For Defense of Leningrad", and "For Victory over Germany". In 1943, Nikolai Timkov has been accepted in members of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. His first part in Art exhibition refers to 1929 (Rostov on Don). In 1947, in the halls of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists has been opened the first solo exhibition of his works, as shown later in Leningrad at the Cinema House and the House of Arts. He painted landscapes, genre paintings, worked in watercolors and oil painting. Most famous as master of lyrical landscapes. Since the late 1940s, Nikolai Timkov become the constant participant of Leningrad, Republican, and All-Union Art Exhibition. Formation of his individual creative style proceeded gradually, as experience and lessons learned in the process of communicating with your colleagues and numerous creative travel to the Volga River and Don River, in Staraya Ladoga, the Urals, the work in Wira and Christmas village near Leningrad, on the Academicheskaya Dacha. Already as a mature master he visits Italy (1969), England (1974), France (1977), Yugoslavia (1981). In the first post World War II decade, Timkov style developed and improved in areas identified during the years of study. He was entirely under the influence of the 19th-century Russian landscape painters. Real space in his works passed almost illusory precision, the colors muted. In landscapes of Don and Volga he tends to cover a larger space with the image of the set clearly legible plans that is in line with general trends in the genre of these years. Among the famous works of this period the painting "Harvest" (1950),[4] "Lights of Hydro Power Station", "Soon the harvest" (both 1951),[5] "Winter Landscape" (1952),[6] "Don River Distance" (1953), "Evening on the Don River", "At the Don River"[7] (both 1954), "Silent Fall. On the Don", "The Last Snow", "Towards Spring"[8] (all 1955), "Windy Day", "Evening"[9] (both 1956), "The ice moved",[10] "Evening on the Volga River"[11] (both 1957), and others. The most interesting his etudes done from nature: "Landscape"[12] (1954), "Spring Landscape"[13] (1955), "The Wira village",[14] "A Winter" (both 1956), "White Night" (1957), "Last Ray", "Towards spring", "Young Aspen trees"[15] (all 1958), and others. In them Timkov often can be preserved impressions of the direct perception of nature. But the sketch in those years was considered only as auxiliary material for landscape painting, with its large size, an essential genre-narrative beginning with the careful selection and meticulous attention to detail and alignment of the composition. Not surprisingly, therefore, that at the solo exhibition of 1957 in the Leningrad Union of Artists, as later in Rostov on Don, Timkov appears as a gifted and serious professional, whose work is however still does not go beyond the tenets and practices that existed in the Soviet landscape painting of 1940-1950s. However, much in his works has already drawn attention to themselves. This is a rare natural sense of color, sincere and resolute own voice in the selection of topics and reveal of the way. His painting becomes decorative, pattern and shapes becomes more generalized. The artist often resorted to building tracks around the large volumes and planes. Russian Winter. Hoarfrost. 1969 Timkov not stop the quest for his identity until the last years of life, and are critical to the deal has been painted by him earlier. And yet his recognizable style artist gets to mid-1960s. This assures attentive acquaintance with the works of this period, shown in solo exhibitions of 1964 in Leningrad, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Kislovodsk, Rostov-on-Don, Ordzhonikidze, Nalchik, and in 1975 in Leningrad. They traced the obvious development of the creative artist's manner from traditional plein air painting aside impressionistic enrichment and refinement of color, enhance decoration, styling and some conventions of the drawing. Colourful range of his works in 1960 become extremely broad, its coloring a ringing and decorative, but not local, and subtly linked to relief, with the expressive possibilities of the canvas surface, texture, smear. In this period the spectacular talent of Nikolai Timkov fully disclosed in all kinds of creativity - from large landscape painting to nature studies of small forms. Among them paintings "A First Snow"[16] (1961), "On the Tesa River",[17] "Street in Kholui town",[18] "Autumn Cherry trees" (all 1962), "February azure"[19] (1963 ), "In the March"[20] (1965), "A Spring", "Autumn Gold", "Volkhov River. A Last Snow"[21] (all 1967), "Sunny Day", "Winter has come"[22] (both 1968), "Russian Winter. A Hoarfrost."[23] (1969), "April", "Mstino Lake"[24] (1971), "June Blue",[25] "A May. Bird cherry blossoms"[26] (both 1972), "In the Snow" (1973), "Danilov Monastery in the Pereslavl-Zaleski ancient town" (1974), "A Field under snow", "A February"[27] (both 1975), and others. After a successful exhibition of 1975, Timkov continues to work actively in Valentinovka village located near Academicheskaya Dacha, as well as his Leningrad studio in a house on the Pesochnaya Embankment. He travels to the Crimea, the Black Sea coast of Caucasus, visited France and Yugoslavia. From now until the end of life the majority of his works will be created in the village of Valentinovka and its surroundings near the Vyshny Volochyok town in Tver Province. Timkov works here every year from April–May to November, sometimes in winter. He painted banks of Msta River and Mstino lake, and nearby villages Kotchische, Bolshoy Gorodok, Maliy Gorodok, Podol, Kisharino, Terpigorevo. Among works painted by Timkov in these years were the "A First Snow", "An Autumn"[28] (both 1977), "Torzhok town", "Is Rain"[29] (both 1978), "Torzhok town. A Winter", "Winter Morning", "Summer Evening"[30] (all 1980), "A Spring"[31] (1982), "Twilight" (1983), "Crimea"[32] (1988), "Pereslavl-Zalesky town"[33] (1992), and a lot others. In 1982 in Moscow in the halls of the Moscow House of Artists at the street of Kuznetsky Bridge successfully hosted an exhibition of works by Nikolai Timkov shown later both in the Air Force Academy after Yuri Gagarin and in Stars City. In 1987 Nikolai Timkov was awarded an honorable title of Honored Artist of Russian Federation. His last lifetime exhibition has been shown in 1993 in the halls of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. Nikolai Efimovich Timkov died on December 25, 1993 in Saint Petersburg at the eighty-second year of life. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum,[34] in Art museums and private collections in Russia,[35] France, England, Japan, in the U.S.,[36] and throughout the world. In 1990s, after the death of the artist, his work has received recognition and aroused great interest abroad. He devoted two monographs published in the U.S.[37][38] Exhibitions of his works were held in San Francisco (1998, 2000, 2001), Aspen (1999), New York (1999, 2001), Scottsdale (2000), Palm Beach (2000), Vail (2001), Washington (2001) and other cities. This brought the artist fame and glory of the "Russian Impressionist". One of the first Soviet artists, and perhaps the first landscape painter, he was listed in the West as one of the biggest painter of the 20th century. With the works of Nikolai Timkov for many Western art historians and art lovers began essentially a new discovery of Soviet-era art middle and second half of the 20th century. Nikolai Timkov paintings are available at and through the L P Cline Gallery in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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