 | Masha Yurtova Born in 1985 in the village of Polkh Maidan in Nizhni Novgorod region. Now Masha study in the Maidan Art School, she use gouache technique of art. Masha designed her first doll at the age of nine. |
|  | Alexander Kushmarev was Born in 1962 in the village of Polkh Maidan in Nizhni Novgorod region. He is a skillful craftsman. Kushmarev mastered almost all styles and motifs typical for the Maidan wooden toys of the 19 century. |
|  | Galina Tarasuk graduated from the Abramtsevo Art and Craft at Khothovo in 1982. The Abramtsevo Art and Craft at Khothovo gave training in wood carving and pottery.She was a first to attempt reviving of the Sergiev Matryoshka doll trade in 1980s. |
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 | Maria Kushmareva was born in 1964 in the village of of Polkh Maidan in Nizhni Novgorod Region, where she resides at present. She strive to revive the oldtoys styles and motifs. |
|  | Elena Rugalskaya graduated from the Sergiev Posad school of folk art and crafts in 1989.Now she lives in the village of Loza in Sergiev Posad region . |
|  | Galina Bayko was born in 1944 in Volgograd. She had received training as a wood carver at the Bogorodskoye school of folk art and crafts. |
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 | Ludmila Tokareva was born in 1939 in the village of of Polch Maidan in Nizhni Novgorod region, where she resides at present. She successfully incorporate the traditions of painting typical of the Maidan toy style and the Krutets style. She is from the old toy-making family and she charged her 6 daughters with painting toys. |
|  | Maya Kuznetsova graduated from the Maidan school of folk art and crafts in 1988. Now she resides in Voznesenskoye in the Nizhni Novgorod region. |
 | Anastasia Anoprieva was born in Ukraine in 1972. In 1989 Anastasia finished the Bogorodskoye School of folk art and craft. She studies the tradition of the Sergiev Posad wooden and papier-mache toys. |
|  | Galina Yurtova was born in 1963 in the village of of Polkh Maidan in Nizhni Novgorod Region, where she resides at present. She is from the toy-making family. The main articles manufactured by the Maidan toy-making families are nestling-dolls, wooden mushrooms, balls, pyramides and rattles. |
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