Kuks Miney Ilyich

Kuks Miney Ilyich (1902–1978) graphic artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He studied at the Kopylov studio in Irkutsk (until 1925). Until 1930, he studied in Moscow, in the Higher art and technical workshops. He worked at the State Publishing House of a children's book. In 1941-1945, he collaborated with the Leningrad association of poster artists «Battle Pencil». The author of the poster How two partisan detachments beat the fascist reptile (1941, together with Yu. N. Petrov and V. A. Tambi). The circulation poster of M. I. Kuks is kept in the collection of the Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore.