Savinov was born September 27, 1915, in Natalievka village, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine).

He was friends with several well-known artists from the Saratov School: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Alexander Matveev, Piotr Utkin, Pavel Kuznetsov.

Their judgments about art, the creativity of his father, his[clarification needed] extraordinary personality had a strong impact on the formation of the young artist.

He drew a distinction in battle soldiers,[clarification needed] wounded in the hospitals, and also participated in the preparation of exhibitions of artists of the Red Army devoted to the fighting troops of the Leningrad Front and the Baltic Fleet.

In 1957 at the All-Union Art Exhibition in Moscow, devoted to the 40th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Savinov first showed two large narrative paintings: The University Embankment,[2] and At the street[3] (both 1957).

In these works he appeared as a mature artist, a talented colorist and composer who knows how everyday street scene to lift up to the level of highly generalized image of civil sound.

In both pictures Savinov demonstrated ability in a small space of the canvas clearly convey the feeling of the era, with its household characteristics, originality of types, relationships between people.