Description of the artwork «Liberation of Vyborg»
painting "Liberation of Vyborg" watercolor on paper Lugansky P.I. 1944
sketch for the magazine "Leningrad" No. 9 1944
reverse signature
size 40 x 51 cm framed under glass 46 x 57 cm
"Leningrad" is a two-week literary and art magazine (formerly called "Rezets"), organ of the Leningrad branch of the USSR Writers' Union. Published in 1940-1946. He published mainly the works of Leningrad writers. During the Great Patriotic War, the magazine was dominated by frontline essays and correspondence, information about the life of the hero-city. The executive editors were S.L. Gorsky, V.M.Sayanov (from 1942), B.M. Likharev (from the end of 1944). The journal was closed in 1946 by the decree of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks "On the magazines" Zvezda "and" Leningrad "".