Alexander Sergeevich Murylev was born in 1924 in the village of Burluk in the Volgograd region of Russia. Since 1930 he has lived in the town of Semiluki in the Voronezh region. His first art teachers were P. N. Gatilov and P. I. Popov. In August of 1941 Murylev was involved in digging defences against the German army on the right bank of the Dnepr River. In September of 1942 he was conscripted into the Russian Workers Red Army in the intellegence unit around Smolensk. He was wounded, losing his right foot. From 1944 to 1950 he studied at the Penza Art College under Goruskin-Sorokopudov. From 1951 until 1957 he studied at the Tallin Art Institute. From 1960 to 1991 he taught architectural drawing at the Voronezh Engineering and Building Institute. He lived in Semiluki, Voronezh Region, exhibiting his works often at regional, zonal, and republic exhibitions. He died on October 22, 2001. A memorial exhibition of Murylev’s artworks, where painting, portraits of the 50s-70s and pencil drawings of the wartime were represented, took place in the Kramskoj Voronezh Art Museum in 2002.