Anatoli Liubavin was born in Podolsk, in the Moscow surroundings, where he now lives. He studied at the Surikov Academy. He started his activity as an engraver (etcher) and exhibited his works in important art events in Soviet Union and collective and personal exhibition in Moscow. In most recent years, beginning from 1990-91, he intensified his pictorial activity with artworks of considerable expressive and chromatic impact and sensitivity. Some of his works had been published by the Russian edition of the American magazine Good Housekeeping.

Following a period spent in Italy, he started painting a few works where the chromatic side turns towards a prominent although still essential brightness, often together with rural subjects where people, landscapes and animals blend their being in the subliminal transfiguration of dacha, its desire and the desire or quiet. Liubavin has developed an exceptional chromatic talent joint with a concrete and realistic style to express the subject and the environment; this places him among the most notable artist in the contemporary Russian fine art panorama. He is shy and humble and only marginally involved in the official artistic life of the new Russia. In 1999 participated to his first Italian exhibition organized by Russiarte showing a collection of fascinating solar paintings.