The library of foreign literature for children (branch №3 of the Pushkin library)
ul. 3 sovetskaya, 8, entrance from the yard (m. Ploshchad Vosstaniya)
+7 (812) 275-53-10, www.pushkinlib.spb.ru
Opening hours: mon-sat 11.00-18.00, sun closed

September 21 – October 12

Lev Yudin was born in 1903 in Vitebsk. While still in school he began attending the workshop of K.S. Malevich, then studied at an institute, where Malevich was teaching. In 1922 he moved to Petrograd with his teacher. Since 1928, Yudin collaborated in magazines Tchizh and Yozh and the famous Marshak Academy along with other great artists and writers: V. Lebedev, Yu.Vasnetsov, B. Malakhovsky, V. Ermolayeva, D. Harms, N. Oleynikov, N. Zabolotsky, V. Mayakovsky, A.Vvedensky and others. In 1941, he was killed at the Leningrad front.