soviet graphic artist. Alexei Antonovich Sysoev was born in Leningrad in July 1946. He graduated from the art and graphic faculty of the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in 1974. He worked in the technique of color and black-and-white monotype, dry needle, autofset, autolithography, drawing in ink and colored pencils. The artist's life was cut short at the age of 42 in Moscow.