Spring 1948 The Shchigol family returned to the Ukraine, to Kiev. They lived in a two­bedroom flat on Lev Tolstoy Square.

1948 - 1958 Mother takes care of Mikhail, Viktor and their older sister Dora (1939), the father works as a manager of Promstroiprojekt, later as its head engineer, and later still as the head of the architectural studio. The family spends every summer in Odessa by the Black Sea.

1958 After he finished the seventh class, he was admitted to a professional school of civil engineering. Thirteen­year­old Mikhail was 128 cm tall and weighed 21 kilograms at the time. Last holidays at the seaside. On August 26, 1958 the family celebrated his and his brotherŐs "bar mizvah" (in Jewish tradition, the age of thirteen). On the following day their 19­year­old sister Dora did not come back from a boat outing on the Black Sea.

1958 - 1964 At the secondary school he acquired practical knowledge of construction professions. After graduation from the school he was employed in the construction design instutute Kyjevprojekt, in the architect Lev Katko's studio.

1964 - 1970 Took evening courses at the College of Architecture in Kiev.

1967 - 1977 Employed in the studio of the architect and painter Boris Lekar (since 1990 in Jerusalem). The relationship of the teacher and pupil developed into a life­long friendship. They collaborated on joint architectural and sculpting projects, painted in the open air (the Pamirs, northern Russia, the Caucassus...), visited the studios of the foremost non­conformist artists (Leningrad: Viktor Levitin, Sergei Arshakuni and Mikhail Shemiakin; Moscow: Mikhail Grobman, Oskar Rabin, Francisk Infante, Ilya Kabakov, Vassily Sitnikov, Genadiy Bachurin, Vasily Chuikov.) The friendship with the Kiev painters Mikhail Vainstein, Anatoly Lymarev, the photographer Igor Gilbo, the ceramist Olga Rapai­Markish, poet George Fenerli.

Spring 1973 Study stay at the town­planning department of the College of Architecture in Moscow.

1974 Admitted as a member of the Union of Ukrainian Architects.

1970 Married.

April 6, 1972 His son Sviatoslav was born.

1977 - 1990 Architectural and industrial­design conceptual work in the Chudozh­project Works, which was part of the Union of Ukrainian Artists.

1980 Left home, lived in his studio. Got a divorce.

1981 Made friends with the ceramist Marina Khusid (b. 1956) and they started to live together.

Sept. 14, 1982 Son Daniel was born to Mikhail and Marina, suffering from poliomye­litis. In their hope for his recovery, the parents took him to many Soviet hospitals, but with no results.

1981 - 1988 Intensive creative collaboration with Marina Khusid.

Sept. 21, 1988 Marina Khusid was killed in a traffic accident in Uzbekistan, where she was to attend a symposium. She was buried in Kiev, in the Baiko cemetery.

1988 - 1991 Prepared a posthumous exhibition of his wife Marina's works. Along with her colleagues Setrak Baroyants, Yuri Levchenko and Alexander Babak he helped finish her monumental works and prepared her catalogue with the graphic Valentina Ivashchenko and the photographer Igor Gilbo.

Spring 1990 Took his son Daniel for a three­months­stay at a Czech spa Železnice near Jičín, where there is a convalescent home for polio children. At the railway station in Prague he was met by the sculptor Viktor Konečný, who became his first Czech friend. Returned to painting. Met the painter Vladimír Komárek. First exhibition in Czechoslovakia, in the Železnice Museum. The cure meant a visible progress in Daniel's condition.

Summer 1991 Second stay in Železnice. He had to decide about his own and his son's further life.

1992 On humanitarian grounds he obtained a permit of permanent stay in Czechoslovakia. Daniel became a pupil of a special needs school for deaf children in Hradec Králové. Mikhail lived and painted in a small room in the school which Daniel attended.

1992 - 1997 Presented his paintings in solo exhibitions in Bohemia, Slovakia, Germany, and Austria. Friendship with the painter Vladimír Komárek, the writer and scriptwriter Halina Pawlowská, with the founder of the Andy Warhol Museum in Medzilaborce, Michal Bycko, the manager of the Železnice Spa Petr Ježek, the actor Martin Zajíček from Jičín. His friends in Hradec Králové include, for example, the collector Stanislav Zídek, the singer Michaela Novozámská and her husband Ladislav, the artist Ludvík Vašina, the architect and poet Karel Mahrla, the painter Jiří Sčerbakov... He meets a painter from Tábor, Karel Valtr and his family.

1993 On recommendation by Viktor Konečný and Jiří Seifert, he was admitted as a member of the Union of Czech Artists.

August 1995 His first visit to Israel, where since 1993 his brother Viktor and his family had been living. Together, they celebrated their "Hundredth Anniversary" on the coast of the Mediterranean. Boris Lekar was present.

Spring 1996 He moved to Prague. There he was visited by the now worldwide­known artist Mikhail Shemiakin, who was on his way from Moscow to New York. He made friends with an editor of the Radio Free Europe station and poet, Igor Pomerantsev. It was also only in Prague that he was able to visit his favourite painter Viktor Pivovarov, who had moved in from Moscow in the early 1980s.