Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of a postal worker called Gennady Pozdeyev and his wife Yevdokia in the village of Nizhny Ingash in Siberian (now Krasnoyarsk) Region (1926). Won a children’s drawing competition for a portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1937). Worked at the Krasnoyarsk Combine Harvester Factory following the Nazi invasion (1941). Sentenced to six months in prison for leavin...