2023115 Years since the Birth of Jevgenij Vucetic - First Day Cover

Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (Yekaterinoslav, December 28, 1908 – Moscow, April 12, 1974). Serbian by origin on his father’s side, of French blood on his mother’s side, he showed an artistic gift from his early childhood. He studied sculpture at the Leningrad Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts. He is one of the creators of the “Stalinist classicism” style. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and received the highest honours in the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Presidium and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Arts.