Legendary Ukrainian artist and cartoonist Anatoly Vasilenko died in Kyiv. According to "

The death of the artist was confirmed in the Perets magazine, where he worked, as well as the editor-in-chief of The Kyiv Independent Olga Rudenko, who collaborated with the artist in the Kyiv Post.

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“The editors of Perets magazine sadly announce that at the age of 84 the patriarch of Ukrainian graphic humor and satire, People’s Artist of Ukraine Anatoly Petrovich Vasilenko, passed away,” the magazine said..

Anatoly Vasilenko was born in the Poltava region in the village of Nizhnyaya Lanna, Karlovsky district.

He drew the first caricature of his cousin Ivan. At the age of 20, while working at a sugar factory, Vasilenko began to create satirical sketches for the newspaper of the local trade union..

In the 60s, the cartoonist began to collaborate with the magazine " In addition, he collaborated with Rural News, worked in the magazines Barvinok, Malyatko, Funny Pictures, Vitchizna, Dnipro, Ranok. Illustrated about 300 books for children and adults, in particular, the famous book "