title: Minei Ilyich Kuks
text: # Minei Ilyich Kuks
  
  Minei Ilyich Kuks (Миней Ильич Кукс, born 1902 - died 1979) was a Soviet graphic artist. He studied art in Irkutsk and Moscow and was a noted illustrator of children's books, e.g. the 1972 edition of A Summer's Evening by Vasily Zhukovsky. During the Second World War, he was part of the Battle Pencil [ru] artists' group and created the propaganda poster "How two partisan detachments beat the fascist reptile" (Как два партизанских отряда били фашистского гада) (1941) in collaboration with Yu. N. Petrov [ru] and V. A. Tambi.
  
  Kuks was a member of the Leningrad Experimental Graphics Laboratory. He was married to another LEGL artist Aleksandra Iakobson.
  
  