Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov
1903
—
1977
Soviet painter and pedagogist (1903-1977)
Yuri Pimenov was a Soviet Russian artist painter, graphic artist, set designer, poster artist, teacher. An academician of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union, he held the title People's Artist of the USSR (1970) and was a laureate of two Stalin Prizes of the second degree and the Lenin Prize (1967).