Okhrim Sudomora

[2][3] From 1913, he worked in book design, illustrated children's books for Kyiv (later Vienna and Prague) publishing houses "Chas" (Time), "Dniprosoiuz", "Dzvin" (Bell), "Vernyhora"; from 1913 to 1914 he designed the magazine "Siaivo" (Aura) and numerous children's fairy tales (among them, The War of Mushrooms and Beetles, 1919).

[1] From 1924, he worked for the Kharkiv and Kyiv publishing houses "Shliakh Osvity" (Path of Education), "Knyhospilka" (Ukrainian Co-operative Publishing Association), "Radianske Selo" (1924-1934, Soviet Village)), "Radianska Shkola" (1935-1941, Soviet School), and the journals Zhovten (October) and Pioneria (Pioneering).

In 1943, with the advance of the Red Army, he moved to Lviv where he illustrated the magazine "Mali druzi" (Little Friends) and children's fairy tales for the "Ukrainske vydavnytstvo" (Ukrainian Publishing House).

In 1949, the artist was sentenced to 25 years to labor camps for a caricature of Joseph Stalin with his hands covered in blood that he had drawn for the German-run New Ukrainian Word.

However, according to Oleh, his grandson, Okhrim Ivanovych lived with his wife P. E. Sudomora, his son Yuri, and daughter Kateryna, in Kyiv on Vozdvyzhensky Lane until 1955.

For this reason, Sudomora could only contribute illustrations to Soviet journals, school textbooks, and calendars.