Evgeny Mikhailovich Pozdniakov was born July 9, 1923 in Petrograd.  

In years 1933-1938, Evgeny Pozdniakov studied drawing and painting at Art studio of the City Palace of Young Pioneers, then in the Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Art in Leningrad, pupil of Vladimir Gorb.

In 1955 E. Pozdniakov graduated from the V. Mukhina Institute.  Since 1955 he has participated in Art exhibitions.  Member of the LCRAU since 1985.  He painted landscapes, portraits, genre paintings, sketches from the life.

In the years of 1950-1970 the leading genre of Evgeny Pozdniakov works was a landscape, the main theme - the picturesque neighborhood of town of Maloyaroslavets and Krasny Kholm town in the north-east of Tver Province. Evgeny Pozdniakov drawn to the panoramic landscape with wide distances and a lot of clearly legible plans. Stylistically his works based on the experiences of Russian landscape painting of the 19th - early 20th century.

Evgeny Mikhailovich Pozdniakov died in Leningrad in 1991. Paintings by Evgeny Pozdniakov are in art museums and private collections in Russia, USA, France, England, Japan, and other countries.