
Yakovkev Georgii
Cheboksary, Russia
Cartoonist
Was born in 1927.
He graduated from the Cheboksary Art School.
In addition to caricatures, he constantly works in the genre of book and magazine graphics.
The first cartoons were published in the magazines “Smena” and “Kapkan” in 1956.
For a long time he worked as an art editor in the journal Kapkan.
Participant of international exhibitions “Satire in the Struggle for Peace”, exhibition “Satire on the Lines of Fire” and many republican exhibitions.
Laureate of the Ivan Muchi Prize.
A series of “Masters of the Soviet cartoon” ed. Moscow, “Soviet Artist” 1985