Saifullin, Rashid Faizrakhmanovich (Sajfulin, Rashid F.)

Rashid Saifullin studied at the Bashkir Art School from 1933 to 1935. Around 1937, he studied in the art studio of Dimitrii Moor, the noted Soviet graphic artist. Saifullin was drafted in the Red Army during the Second World War and served from 1943 to 1945. During the war, the artist suffered battle trauma and was temporarily demobilized. Returning from military service, Saifullin lived in Kazan and worked in poster production for Tatgosizdat (Tatar State Publishing House). In the post-war years he was engaged in book illustration. Published sources alternatively list the birth year of the artist as 1918 and his death as having occurred in 1947.