Vladimir Bogatkin

Vladimir Valeryanovich Bogatkin (; October 5, 1922 – April 13, 1971) was a Russian artist.

Bogatkin was born in Moscow in 1922,

In 1934, he began his art studies in the studio of the graphic artist Aleksei Ilyich Kravchenko. In 1936 he enrolled at the higher art school of the All-Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad (now the St. Petersburg Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture). and participated in the Second World War as part of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, covering the combat as an artist.

In 1949, he married the Estonian artist Valli Lember, with whom he had two sons: the cinematographer Vladimir Bogatkin (1951–2021) and the ceramist Georg Bogatkin (born 1954).The couple lived alternately in Tallinn and Moscow.

Bogatkin illustrated books and magazines. He presented his work at exhibitions in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Russia, and Estonia. In 1960, the Bogatkins built a summer house in Karepa. In several of his works, Bogatkin depicted the landscape around Karepa and the life of fishermen.

Vladimir Bogatkin died in 1971 while traveling on the train from Leningrad to Tallinn.