Vladimir Degtyarev

Vladimir Dmitrievich Degtyarev (January 18, 1916 - October 6, 1974) - Soviet filmmaker-animator, art director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969). He was born on January 18, 1916 in Moscow. In 1937 he graduated from the Leningrad Art College. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was drafted to the front. In 1942 he became disabled: because of the injured, his right arm was amputated. He without exams was admitted to the VGIK at the Faculty of Art, which he graduated in 1948. In the process of learning, he learned how to draw and write with his left hand. In the same year he was…