This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the visual artist Ghennadii Zîkov (Ghenadie Zâcov), whose creation unites two banks of the river Nistru. Gennadii Zikov created the easel, monumental, graphic and pictorial works. It is important to emphasize a fact that already seems almost forgotten: from the beginning of the Soviet era Gennadii Zîkov also worked in the field of book graphics. His series of creative works can be divided by genres like: portraits, landscapes, illustrations, conceptual figurative compositions, etc. By the 1991, the main theme of the painting of Ghennadii Zîkov became fate and thought, and also the image of a man in various difficult historical and cultural conditions. Studying the creation of the visual artist Ghennadii Zîkov, we have an opportunity to compare the stylistic and technical variety of ideational and conceptual approaches to the radical changes of his life.