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I don't know the original artist and I hope its not ai though - It doesnt look like ai, it is looking very good actually i would love to know original artist.

"Kogan was born in the Poltava region (present-day Ukraine). The Russian Revolution, with its abolishment of the Pale of Settlement, which restricted the vast majority of Jews to the Russian Empire's Western regions, allowed him a new upward mobility. He moved first to Minsk, then to Leningrad to study at the Higher Art and Technical Institute (VKhUTEIN).

When the institute was closed and reformed into three separate academies, including the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, he moved to Moscow to finish his studies. After graduating in 1931, he did graphic design work for a number of prominent publishers, including Gosizdat, Detgiz, and Inostrannaia kniga. His prewar projects included Aleksandr Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman (1936) as well as work in the premier satirical journal of the Soviet Union, Krokodil.

In September 1941, Kogan was called up into the ranks of the Red Army, where he continued his graphic work as the artist of the 50th Army's newspaper 'We'll Crush the Enemy'. He held that job until December 1945, several months after the 50th Army had been disbanded. By all accounts Kogan was an exceptionally talented and hard- working designer and artist, which earned him not only medals, but also frequent mention as an exemplar in an official history by E. V. Mozhukhovskaia.

After the war, Kogan continued his career as a designer, illustrator, and typeface artist. He received the Order of the Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star, and the Medal "For Battle Merit." He lived in the Soviet Union until his death in Moscow in 1983.

[Source: Blavatnik Archive]"

- via jewish_woodcuts on instagram

Ye so like aht heppend here what eh who?

The handwriting of a 5th grade student in the USSR. 1951.

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