Lugovkin Viktor

Cartoonist. Member of the Creative Union of artists of Russia. He graduated from the higher Serpukhov military engineering school of the rocket forces. The first cartoon was published in 1979 in the newspaper «Nedelya», co-authored with Vasily Filippov, while serving at the missile range in Kapustin Yar. The first independent drawing was published in the Volgograd newspaper «Young Leninets» in 1981. In the future, cartoons were published in Newspapers: «people's tribune», «Labor», «socialist industry», «Izvestia», «Moskovsky Komsomolets», «Lenin's Banner», «Sputnik», «Workers' and peasants 'Correspondent», «Man and Law», «Sankei Shimbun» (Japan), in regional and local publications. In 1986, he joined the editorial Board of Krokodil magazine. Collaborated with this publication until its closure. 8-time winner of the annual award of the magazine «Crocodile». Multiple prize-winner of caricature contests in the Newspapers «Trud» and «Rabochaya Tribuna». Participant of foreign and domestic exhibitions. Personal exhibition with Vasily Dubov in 1992 at the Moscow cinema «Fitil».