Baranov Konstantin is a painter and graphic artist. He is a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, the Honoured Art Worker of Kazakhstan, and a participant in the Great Patriotic War.

He was born in the village of Bolshoye Kozino, Nizhny Novgorod province. In 1927-1930 K. Baranov studied in the art workshop of I.L. Kopylov in Irkutsk, then in 1947-1956, he worked as a chief artist at the Kazakh State Publishing House in Alma-Ata. In 1948-1951 he was a chairman of the Board of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan. Konstantin Baranov made a significant contribution to the development of Kazakhstani graphics.

He mainly worked in the realm of easel graphics. Two themes, ethnography and industry are most significant in his art.  He often creates not a separate board, but a series of works, filled with a light and lyrical mood and often laconic. Such is the work from the museum’s collection named Sheet-II from the series “Fishermen of the Balkhash”, “Waiting”, which is characterized by agility and skill of execution.