Đorđe Lobačev
| Đorđe Lobačev | |
|---|---|
| Born | Yuriy Pavlovich Lobachev March 4, 1909 Shkodër, Ottoman Albania |
| Died | July 23, 2002 (aged 93) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Đorđe Lobačev (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Лобачев) or Yuriy Lobachev (Russian: Юрий Лобачев; 1909–2002) was a Soviet Russian and Serbian-Yugoslavian comic strip author and illustrator. He was one of the pioneers of the comic strip in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the interwar period. Most of his comics from this period have themes from Serbian history and Serbian folklore. He lived Yugoslavia until 1949 when he was expelled during the Informbiro period because he was Soviet citizen. He lived in Romania for few years before moving to the Soviet Russia where he spent the rest of his life. He was the author of the first Soviet comic strip Hurricane Comes to the Rescue in 1966.
He is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of both Serbian and Russian comic strip.
Lobačev was born Yuriy Pavlovich Lobachev (Russian: Юрий Павлович Лобачев) om 4 March 1909 in Shkodër, Ottoman Albania, a son of Russian consul. His family spent the time of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) in the Kingdom of Montenegro and he was baptized in Cetinje. During the World War I, he lived in Kosovska Mitrovica, on the island of Crete and in Thessaloniki. After the war he settled first in Novi Sad, and then, after his parents have died in 1922, he moved to Belgrade, where he studied at the Russian-Serbian Gymnasium. He studied art history at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
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