Hurenko Olena Andriivna (born 02.08.1939), the town of Kropyvnytskyi – an art historian, a teacher in Art School named after O.O.Osmerkin (1962-2020), graduated from Kirovohrad State Pedagogical Institute named after O.S.Pushkin, now Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko, the Department of Philology (1962), Kyiv State Art Institute, now the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture of Ukraine, the Department of History and Theory of Visual Art (1975) – for the book “Tree of Life of Nadiia Padurska: a sketch of the life and creative work of the artist”.