Name from a postcard. Vladimir Ivanovich Zarubin (170 postcards)

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Vladimir Ivanovich Zarubin (August 7, 1925, Andriyanovka, Oryol region - June 21, 1996, Moscow) - Russian Soviet artist, cartoonist, animator.

Born in the village of Andriyanovka, Oryol region. Participated in the Great Patriotic War. According to the story of his son, at the beginning of the war he lived with his parents in Lisichansk, from where, when the city was captured by German troops, he was driven to Germany and worked in a labor camp in the Ruhr, from where he was liberated by American troops.

After the war, from 1945 to 1949 he served as a rifleman in the commandant's office of the Soviet Army. In 1949 he began his career as an artist. At first he worked as an artist at the Ministry of Coal Industry (until 1950), from 1950 to 1958 he was an artist at a plant (now NPO Giperon).

In 1956 he entered the Moscow Evening Secondary School, from which he graduated in 1958. In parallel with his studies, he took courses for animators at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio and at the University of Marxism-Leninism MGK CPSU.

From 1957 to 1982 he worked as an animator at Soyuzmultfilm, taking part in the creation of about a hundred hand-drawn animated films. At the end of the 1970s he was admitted to the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR.

Vladimir Zarubin is also known as an artist of greeting cards (mainly with cartoon themes), drawings on envelopes, calendars, etc. His works are valued by collectors. Collecting Zarubin's postcards is an independent topic in philocarty. In 2007, a catalog of postcards by Vladimir Zarubin was published.