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Yefimov, Boris (Yefimovich)
(b Kiev, 28 Sept 1900). Russian graphic artist of Ukrainian birth. He received no formal artistic training, studying in the Legal Faculty of Kiev University (1917–18). He began his professional work as a caricaturist for the Kiev newspaper Krasnaya Armiya in 1919. In 1920–21 he produced agitational posters for YugROSTA (the southern department of the Russian Telegraph Agency; see AGITPROP) in Odessa and Kiev. He moved to Moscow in 1922 and began to work regularly for the newspapers Pravda, Izvestiya and Krasnaya zvezda and the magazines Ogonyok, Krokodil and others. Yefimov was principally a specialist in international affairs but in the journal Prozhektor (1924–34), apart from his regular political designs, he published caricatures and illustrations on local social themes. In 1924 Yefimov’s album Politicheskiye karikatury (‘Political caricatures’) was published in Moscow and from 1931 such albums appeared on a regular basis.
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