Yuri Komelkov  Yuri Komelkov ( ; born 30 September 1962) is a Ukrainian publisher, gallerist, art collector, and art patron. He is the founder of the full-service advertising agency Atlant UMC (1997), Re!Zoni magazine (2001), the founder of the company Art-Blues (2002) and the Art-Blues gallery (2004), the owner of the Triptych gallery (2003), the founder and the editor-in-chief of Aura magazine (2007), the founder of Cultprostir Internet platform (2014). He also established and ran the artist Ivan Marchuk's charity foundation (2005) and CultAura foundation (2013). The (protocol No. 49 dated 24 September 2008) — "for high achievements in developing publishing and advertising business and significant personal contribution to a successful annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, held in Kyiv, May 2008". Yuri Komelkov was born in Siversk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on 30 September 1962. Graduated from secondary school No. 1 (1979). He graduated with honours from the Bogomolets Kyiv Medical Institute (1985, faculty of general internal medicine). At the same time, he got the second education at (1985, industrial design faculty) according to the public education system; and completed an international course in traumatology and orthopedics specialty according to the AO system (Association for the Study of Osteosynthesis) in Davos (Switzerland, early 1990s). Career: a staff scientist in Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology (1985–1997), the chief representative of the Swiss company Mathys Medical in Ukraine (1995–1997), owner and CEO of Atlant UMC ad agency (since 1997), president and co-founder of Litton publishing house (2000–2008), the owner of Re!Zoni magazine (2001), the CEO and owner of Art-Blues company (since 2002), the owner of the Triptych gallery (since 2003), the editor-in-chief and the owner of Aura magazine (2007–2009), the owner of Cultprostir Internet platform (since 2014). The place of residence — Kyiv, Ukraine. Yuri Komelkov holds the medical patent "The method of anterior spine fusion" (Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Orthopedics). USSR's certificate of authorship No. 833226, class A 61 B 17/56, 1981.