Yar-Kravchenko Anatoly Nikiforovich

Soviet graphic artist. People's Artist of the RSFSR. Winner of the Stalin Prize. In 1939 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the workshop of I.I. Brodsky. In 1947, Yar-Kravchenko’s graphic album “Gallery of Soviet Writers” (over 300 portraits) was published. In 1948, the artist was awarded the Stalin Prize of the second degree for the painting “Gorky reads his fairy tale “The Girl and Death” on October 11, 1931 to comrades I.V. Stalin, V.M. Molotov and K.E. Voroshilov” and for portraits of Maxim Gorky , Demyan Bedny, Dzhambul, Johannes Vares (Barbarus), Salome Neris. During 1972-1977, A. N. Yar-Kravchenko headed the All-Union Society of Philatelists.