[1] The mother of Abram, Sifra Naumovna, owned a store, where the father of the future painter, Boris A. Zaborov, was working.
The circumstances forced the family to leave Liozna and return to Abram's father's native town of Velizh.
His drawing teacher was Marfa Nikolaevna Volkova, the mother of the future famous Belarusian painter Anatoly Volkov.
The latter was demonstrated at the Young Painters of the Soviet Union Exhibition dedicated to 20 years of Komsomol and took place in 1939.
In 1940 at the Exhibition "10 days of Belarusian Art", Abram Zaborov presented the painting "Where is my Son?".