Izvestia launches a special project dedicated to the 125th anniversary of cartoonist Boris Yefimov

125 years have passed since the birth of the artist who became a personal enemy of Adolf Hitler. Izvestia is celebrating the anniversary of one of the main Soviet cartoonists Boris Yefimov, who worked at the newspaper for about 85 years, with a large-scale special project.

It was for Izvestia that the People's Artist of the USSR created his most famous works dedicated to the fight against fascism and ridiculing Hitler.

Yefimov's work first appeared in Izvestia in 1922. In the 1930s, he actively ridiculed European fascism, the leadership of Germany and Italy in his cartoons. His name was included by the Gestapo in the list of Soviet citizens to be hanged after the capture of Moscow. Therefore, the artist was called Hitler's personal enemy.

In 1945, Yefimov, accredited by Izvestia, worked at the Nuremberg trials, where he made a number of sketches of the defendants. Based on them, a series of cartoons "The Fascist Menagerie" was created, which was published in the newspaper until January 1, 1946.

These and other works from the war years will be presented at a large-scale exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the start of the Nuremberg Trials, which will open in November at the Zurab Tsereteli Gallery. The project is organized by Izvestia International Exhibition Center and the Russian Academy of Arts.

Read more about Boris Yefimov in the Izvestia special project: https://efimov.iz.ru /

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Earlier, on July 10, a new exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of the first salvo of the Katyusha launcher opened at the Victory Museum in Moscow. The exposition became a part of the updated project "Heroes of the rear". One of the participants of the exhibition was the Kalibr plant, the first large specialized enterprise in the USSR for the production of precision measuring instruments. The factory handed over to the Victory Museum unique wartime rarities, including equipment and parts that provided the first salvo of the Katyusha in 1941.

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