[2] Yevhen Pavlovych Yehorov was born in Lyman, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on May 17, 1917, in the family of a railway worker.

The following year, he was made associate professor and head of the department of drawing at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.

Throughout his career, he held a number of exhibitions of his work, including in Kharkiv in 1957, 1967, 1972, 1977, and 1987, in Kyiv in 1969, 1972, and 1987, and in Harbin, China in 1997.

Although modified after Ukraine gained its independence, the coat of arms continues to enjoy significance as a symbol of Kharkiv today.

[2] In 2006, the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts installed a memorial plaque commemorating Yehorov's accomplishments as an artist and a professor at the university.