Aleksey Merinov

Aleksey Viktorovich Merinov (Алексей Викторович Меринов; born 25 March 1959) is a Russian self-taught painter and cartoonist.

Biography
Merinov was born in Moscow. He served in the Soviet Navy. In his youth he worked as a graphic designer in the Romen Theatre.

Since 1988 he has been working at the newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets. He illustrated more than two dozen books. Among them: the Criminal Code and the Tax Code, Collection of recipes, a collection of quotations by Vladimir Putin. He has released over a dozen albums with his pictures.

An avid fan of CSKA Moscow.