Позднев, Евгений Павлович 

Graphic artist, poster designer

Born Saratov, 1912

Died Moscow,1996

Son of an army officer, Pozdnev started drawing early in his youth. In the 1930s he lived with his widowed mother in Tiflis. After the war he moved to Moscow were he mainly worked as an illustrator of books and postcards and as a poster designer.