[1] He was among the Russian-trained artists who came to Turkmenistan and created works of art the captured the nature and culture of the republic.

Cherinko was born on July 22, 1908, in the village of Den'hi, which is now the Zolotonosha Raion in the Cherkasy Oblast of Central Ukraine.

[4] Cherinko studied the culture and the lives of the Turkmen people and sought to capture the nature of their inner worlds.

[1] He painted the portraits of order-bearer collective farmer Nurjemal Ersaryeva and National Artist Alty Karliev.

[1] His paintings, The Smithy (1928), The Bey: The Powers That Be (1940), The Daring Horseback Riders (1944–46), and Spring in Bagir (1947) reflect the social transformations that Soviet Turkmenia experienced in the first half of the 20th century.