Abstract: The subject of the research is the creative biography of Valery Elizarov, a Tuvan artist who currently lives in Abakan. Valery Nikolaevich Elizarov in 2022 donated 36 his works to the Martyanovsky Museum. The artist works in painting, graphics, arts and crafts. The basis for this study was personal meetings, conversations, interviews with the artist, his autobiography, published in a single copy by his wife, Marina Mikhailovna Elizarova, and works stored in the MBUK MKM. It is concluded that the artist's work is based on the historical and cultural heritage of the region, that his biography is not a chain of random events, but a spiritual path of knowing creativity.