Mukho was born December 6, 1913, in Kronstadt, a seaport on Kotlin Island, 30 kilometers west of Saint Petersburg near the head of the Gulf of Finland.

In August 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army and served in World War II, participating in the defense of Leningrad.

After being wounded and demobilized in late 1943, he returned to the institute, where he studied with Mikhail Bernshtein, Semion Abugov, Alexander Zaytsev, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Gleb Savinov.

[2] From 1951 on, Mukho participated in art exhibitions, creating portraits, genre and historical compositions, seascapes, landscapes, and sketches from his life.

His paintings are in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, the United States, Japan, and other countries.