Sketches from the plein air (19 paintings) (1980) Painting by Nikolai Chalyi

Ukrainian painter, graphic artist. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Pedagogue (assistant professor), for many years teacher of the Lviv Academy of Arts (at that time - Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) and the Lviv State College of Applied and Decorative Arts named after I. Trush.

Participant of more than 70 exhibitions — in Ukraine and abroad. Chaply's paintings are kept in the Lviv Art Gallery, in the Scientific-Art Fund of Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky, the National Museum in Lviv, and private collections in Ukraine abroad.

He studied at the Odessa Art Institute. The painting course was taught by T.B. Fraerman, who had studied in Paris and was acquainted with Mathis. In Odessa, he survived a famine, saved by the fact that the students were attached to the student kitchen. 

In 1938, as one of the best graduates he was sent to continue his studies at the Art Institute at the Academy of Art in Leningrad. But because of his father's illness he goes to the Kiev Art Institute. In 1939 he entered the Kharkov Art Institute. Studied at Professor L. Kramarenko, a famous muralist. In 1941, after completing three courses of the Institute was mobilized to the front. 

He worked as a teacher at the Institute. From 1954-1959 he went to work in an art school, where he was head of the department of decorative painting, then deputy director for academic work. 

Worked at the Art Institute as deputy director for academic work (vice-rector) and was a head of the Department of Drawing.

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1913
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists, Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Professional Artist Ukrainian Contemporary Artists Artists presented by a gallery