Valera and Natasha Cherkashin are artists who have been working with the imperial cultures of the USSR (the title of this program is "The End of the Epoch, the 90's"),Germany, the United States, Great Britain and Japan for more than 15 years. (China, Italy are in  future plans).  During that time, they have held more than 50 individual exhibits and more than 20 performances.  There have also been some 30 television programs--on  Russian TV, CNN, Deutsche Welle, Italian Super Channel--and over 50 publications.

In 1992, the Cherkashins developed a conceptual art museum, "The Cherkashin's Museum Metropolitan."  The museum is named in honor of the Moscow subway system.  An album on the "Cherkashin's Museum Metropolitan " has been published, copies of which have been acquired by many museums and libraries in Europe and America.