Koroviakov was born November 16, 1912, in Berdskaya, near Orenburg, Orenburg Province, Russian Empire. In 1932 Alexander Koroviakov entered to the Fine Art College. After graduating he comes to Leningrad and continued his study at Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin since 1937. He studied with Boris Fogel, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Semion Abugov. In 1941, July, Alexander Koroviakov has gone to the Red Army as a volunteer from the last academic year. Не took part in Volhovsky Front, in the battles for Leningrad, in the liberation of Baltic states. Не was wounded and demobilized as an sergeant in 1945. Alexander Koroviakov was awarded by an Order of the Red Star, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and the Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad". At September, 1945, Alexander Koroviakov resumed his study in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin and graduated from Rudolf Frentz workshop in 1947. His degree work was an "Wounded Commander". In 1947 he came back to Penza for teaching painting and drawing in Fine Art College. Since 1949 Alexander Koroviakov has participated in :Alexander Koroviakov#Principal Exhibitions|Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings. Most famous for his still life paintings and cityscapes of Leningrad. In the 1954 Alexander Koroviakov returned to Leningrad and start to teach painting and drawing in the famous Leningrad Secondary Art School under the Academy of Arts of the USSR, where he worked until 1983. Alexander Koroviakov was very active in the exhibition life of Leningrad. In 1956 he took part at Autumn exhibition where he demonstrated the works: "The First Snow" and "The Palace Square". He designated his main direction of the creation: Leningrad cityscape from this moment. His basic technique was working directly from life. Among his works there were "Spring in Leningrad", "St. Isaak`s Square", "Near the Pier", "Kronwerk Strait", "Stadium under the name of Lenin", "Lenin Street", "Factory District", "At the Islands", "After the Snowfall", "Leningrad", "Wet Asphalt", "Winter Palace", "Near Peter and Paul Fortress", "On the Nevka River" and many others. Besides the Leningrad motifs Alexander Koroviakov also worked on tradition landscape. He preferred intimate subjects: a corner of autumn garden or snow-covered yard, sparkling of light spots on the water. For example, in the works "Autumn Garden" and "At the Seliger Lake". In 1960-1980 Alexander Koroviakov was keen by theme of Still life. His compositions were original, complicated by their technique and had associative content. Like in "Autumn Still life", "Dog Rose", "Still life with Cabbage","Bouquet"''. Alexander Koroviakov experimented a lot on painting technique, he tended to effects of capacity, semitransparency and polycoating of image. In 1989 -1992 his works were presented at auctions and exhibitions of Russian paintings at France with great successes. Alexander Koroviakov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists since 1955. Alexander Petrovich Koroviakov died on June 12, 1993, in Saint Petersburg at the eighty-first year of life. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, in the U.S., China, France, and throughout the world.
