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Victor Chizhikov

1935 - 2020

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Victor Alexandrovich Chizhikov (Russian: Виктор Александрович Чижиков; 26 September 1935 – 20 July 2020) was a Russian children's book illustrator and the designer of the Olympic mascot, Misha, of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games (the XXII Summer Olympics). Chizhikov illustrated more than 100 children's books. He worked closely with writers Eduard Uspensky and Andrei Usachev. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Chizhikov is the 1,814th most popular painter (up from 1,923rd in 2019), the 1,931st most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,305th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Russian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Victor Chizhikov ranks 1,814 out of 2,023. Before him are Ivan Argunov, Vija Celmins, Konstantin Yuon, Louis Meijer, Suzanne Duchamp, and Josefine Swoboda. After him are Blanka Teleki, John Marin, Thomas Hart Benton, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Mary Moser, and Edward Ruscha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Victor Chizhikov ranks 383. Before him are Vicente Lucas, Stanley Norman Cohen, Jadwiga Barańska, Jimmy Makulis, Fred Bongusto, and Andrey Zaliznyak. After him are Mona Malm, Donald Arnold, José Luandino Vieira, Margarita Nikolaeva, Jacques Poos, and Peer Hultberg. Among people deceased in 2020, Victor Chizhikov ranks 508. Before him are Jenny Clack, Gianfranco Terenzi, Rossana Rossanda, Boris Gaganelov, Ardico Magnini, and Roman Viktyuk. After him are Arkady Andreasyan, Ryo Kawasaki, Allen Garfield, Nicolas Alfonsi, Mario Ghella, and Reni Santoni.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Victor Chizhikov ranks 1,931 out of 3,761. Before him are Eugen Walaschek (1917), Daniil Medvedev (1996), Tatyana Baramzina (1919), Max Jakobson (1923), Nikolai Menshutkin (1842), and Nestor Kukolnik (1809). After him are Natalya Krachkovskaya (1938), Boris Kurakin (1676), Otto von Böhtlingk (1815), Oscar Grégoire (1877), Vikenty Veresaev (1867), and Abdulla Aliş (1908).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Victor Chizhikov ranks 73. Before him are Vassily Maximov (1844), Nikolay Kasatkin (1859), Andrei Kolkoutine (1957), Sascha Schneider (1870), Mikhail Matyushin (1861), and Konstantin Yuon (1875). After him are Elena Guro (1877), Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870), Aleksandr Gerasimov (1881), Dmitri Vrubel (1960), Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (1832), and Yelena Polenova (1850).

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