Soon thereafter his family moved to the nearby city of Gomel, Belarus, where Chapiro spent most of his childhood.

Thanks to his teachers, Peter Chernyshevsky and Boris Zvenigorodsky, the artists of great experience and talent, this endowment became his predilection, the raison d'être of his life.

However, he was recognized by Russian intellectual elite, by scientists, especially physicists, by sportsmen, poets, musicians and artists.

The themes of his paintings are portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, animals, flowers, and abstract works.

His recent exhibition at Galerie Michel-Ange, Montreal, Canada, has included 15 portraits of most famous artists of 19th and 20th centuries, such as Claude Monet, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Kazimir Malevich and others.