Lebedev Artemy

Lebedev Artemy Date of Birth

13 February 1975

Russian blogger and founder of Art. Lebedev Studio

LEBEDEV Artemy Andreyevich (b. 1975) was born in Moscow in a family of in the family of philologist Andrei Lebedev and writer Tatyana Tolstoy.

In 1989, Lebedev moved with his parents to the United States, but a year later he returned to the USSR, having hated America, according to his own words.
In 1991, he entered the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University but dropped out the following year.
In 1992, he, together with his partner Arkady Troyanker, founded the A-Square design studio, and a year later founded the Arthografika studio, which designed books and magazines, and was also the art director at the MakTsentr studio.
In 1995, Lebedev founded the WebDesign studio, which in 1998 was renamed to Artemy Lebedev Studio. Also in 1997, he founded the Internet advertising agency Reklama.Ru.
By the mid-2000s, Lebedev had gained a reputation as the most famous web designer in Russia. He also became famous as one of the most widely read Runet bloggers and travelers in Russia. He created logos for Yaroslavl, Perm, Odesa, and Kaluga region. Recently, Artemy Lebedev Studio has been fulfilling orders for various departments of the Moscow government.