Mikhail Aleksandvovich Kokin was born in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine in 1921. He studied at the Fine Arts School of Dnepropetrovsk from 1937 through 1941. He went on to study at the Kiev Art Institute as a student of SergueiGrigoriev until 1954. He is best known for his landscapes and marine paintings. Since 1957 he has been a member of the Union of Artists, Emeritus Painters of Ukraine. He has had several solo exhibitions since 1992. His works hang in the collections of the museum of Ukrainian Art in Kiev and the Fine Arts Museum in Dnepropetrovsk.