Legendary Caricaturist Boris Efimov Is Receiving Congratulations on His 107th Anniversary

     Today, the Hero of Socialist Labor, People’s Artist of the USSR, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, winner of three State Prizes, Laureate of the Moscow City Hall prize “Legend of the Century” Boris Efimov is receiving congratulations on his 107th anniversary.
     The creative work by Boris Efimov mirrors the life of this country, key moments of its history. In his expressive works are recorded periods of the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, the 1930s. Well-known are sketches made by the artist during the 1945-1946 International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, his illustrations to poems by Sergei Mikhalkov,  Demian Bedny, Alexander  Bezymenski. Several generations of readers of newspapers “Pravda”, “Red Star”, “Izvestia”, magazines “Ogonek”, “Crocodile”  and many other editions remember   Boris Efimov’s cartoons and drawings. 
     Boris Efimov is an author of several books depicting his bright, amazing life, his meetings with noted political figures of this country, as well as with numerous figures of culture.
     Nowadays, the patriarch of home culture decorated with many orders and awards continues his creative work and actively reacts to all major worldwide events.




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