Famous for his monumental portraits exhibited at landmarks of Russia such as Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery and many others.

[1] He finished the school at the Sugar Factory in Chernigovshina and then in 1914 entered Kiev Art College were studied till 1919 and before he had graduated moved back to his motherland, village Korukovka.

He took part in the Exhibition organised in favour of 15 years anniversary of the Red Army in 1933 with two works in plaster: "Recon" and "Patrol".

During World War II Vilensky was working in metallurgical plant where he created his famous "Ural Series" of terracotta sculptures (1941–1943).

Konstantin Igumnov (1939) - Plaster - Tretyakov Gallery Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1949) - Marble - Tretyakov Gallery Semen Alekseevich Lavochkin (1947) - Marble - Tretyakov Gallery Stepan Elizarovich Artemenko (1948) - Bronze - Rasulovo, Odessa region Ivan Harlamovich Mihaylichenko (1948–1949) - Bronze - Almazniy, Lugank region Sergey Alekseevich Chaplygin (1950) - Plaster - NMM Zhukovsky Bertrand Russell (1966) - Bronze Mikhail Gromov (1970) - Bronze Sergei Korolev (1981) - Marble Sergei Kirov - Borovichi Vladimir Lenin (1957) - Bronze - Sochi, Russia A P Vinogradov (1977) - Marble - Alley of Heroes, St.Peterburg Sergei Korolev (1980) - Marble - Korolev, Russia G P Svishev (1982) - Marble - Alley of Heroes, St.Peterburg Stalin Prize 1948, Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts 1966, People's Painter of the RSFSR 1969, People's Painter of the USSR 1980