- World War II veteran;
- Military Service veteran;
- Disabled person of group II.
He was born on 31st October 1923 in a settlement of Svinarka, Uman district, Cherkassy region, Ukraine; came from a poor peasant family, Ukrainian.
He started drawing from his childhood; his teachers were his parents and environment. His father and mother were good singers. His mother ornamented the house inside and out (stove, a wall above the window, walls) almost always singing home-felt Ukrainian songs.
Comprehensive school, civil engineering college, World War II (1941-1945), labour front, the Institute of Civil Engineering, civil works, design works, career officer of the Armed Forces.
He created dozens of presidios, special civil and industrial complex facilities. He has certain State distinctions, awards and military ranks for service in the Armed Forces.
Starting from the 1950s and 60s he created approximately 2,000 works (sketches on various themes (history, the culture of the Peoples of the USSR, landscapes, illustrations to the literary works)).
He took part in many art exhibitions.
Many works were given to museums, libraries, universities, schools, military units.
Some works are kept in the following institutions:
- The National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”;
- The National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine;
- The National Taras Shevchenko museum (Kyiv, Kaniv);
- The National Chernobyl museum;
- Mykola Gogol museum (the village of Velyki Sorochintsi);
- “The Berestechko Battlefield” State Reserve (the village of Plasheva);
- Stepan Bandera museum (the village of Dublyany);
- Vasyl Stephanik Research Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv);
- The State Agriculture University of Lviv;
- Ivan Gonchar museum (Kyiv);
- Ukrainian Licée –School No. 2 (Simferopol, the Crimea);
- other institutions of Ukraine.
The creative works form a dozen of collected subject sketchbooks named “The Ways” prepared for the press, and further use as illustrations for the purposes of training (including Ukraine Studies) in educational institutions.
The most important of them are:
- “The Ways” No. 1 – “Taras’s Ways” is the sketches connected with Taras Shevchenko’s life and works (drawings – 250 sheets, painting in watercolours – 200 sheets);
- “The Ways” No. 2 – “The Intellectual Wealth of Ukraine” is the sketches connected with the life and works of the eminent cultural workers of Ukraine (drawings – 150 sheets, painting in watercolours – 100 sheets);
- “The Ways” No. 3 – “World War II” is the sketches connected with the history of the USSR to pay the tribute to the memory of the fallen – “Memory-Immortality-Eternity” (drawings – 150 sheets);
- other collections “The Ways” No. 4 to 12 – “World War II” are the sketches on various subjects, the ways of Ukraine, Russia, Central Asia, the Baltic States, the States of Transcaucasia (drawings, painting in watercolours and oils – about 600 sheets);
- It was made illustrations to the works of Lydia Krushelnitskaya, Galina Gordasevich, Lev Silenko, Alexander Grin.
There are a lot of opinions and responses of fine art experts, artists, and scientists, publications in the central and local printed press, on television about Philip Shpilyovy’s oeuvres. It is also posted on the website: http//www.Library.ukma.kiev.ua/fonds/izoteka.html.
