Sergei Yuzhanin (1862-1933) was a Russian Italian painter.

He received his artistic education at the Stroganov Art School. He worked as a drawing teacher at the Morozov factory, in a real school in Panevsk, and from 1889 he taught in Bialystok, where the famous Russian artist S.Yu. Zhukovsky.
From 1896, the Southerner lived in Italy - in Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, on the island of Capri. As an Italian artist, he was connected by friendship with academic painters - F.A. Bronnikov, P.A. and A.A. Svedomsky, S.V. Bakalovich, A.A. Rizzoni. In 1892, during a short stay in Russia, the artist was introduced to P.P. Chistyakov, whose workshop he attended for a year.
In 1898, Yuzhanin’s painting “Roman Courtyard” was acquired for his gallery by the famous Russian philanthropist and art collector P.M. Tretyakov. The main part of the artist's creative heritage - 865 works - remained in Italy. The collection of the Samara Art Museum contains about 40 works of painting and graphics by Yuzhanin, his works are also in the collections of the museum-estate of A.N. Tolstoy, Khabarovsk Art Museum, the descendants of the artist's family, in private collections.