Cherepanov Yuri

1922 — 2016

— Soviet graphic artist, illustrator, famous cartoonist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR from1964. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In 1951 he graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute. He studied in workshop M. I. Kurilko. Author of numerous collections of caricatures, worked with famous Soviet publications, including the magazine "Crocodile". In 1979, he was awarded an award for participation in the International Exhibition for Drawing on Sports Themes in Ancona (Italy), and was awarded the Medal of Honor at the international exhibition of cartoons of the Tokyo-based newspaper Yomiuri (Japan). Yu. A. Cherepanov actively participated in allUnion satire exhibitions; the artist's personal exhibitions were held in Moscow (1967, 1984, 1985), in 1978 — in Sofia, in Kabul (1983), in Tallinn (1986), in Berlin (1987).