Evgeniy Tikhonovich Migunov was a Russian artist, animator and cartoonist.

In the 1950s he worked in Soyuzmultfilm

Soyuzmultfilm

Soyuzmultfilm is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a great variety of style, it is regarded as the most influential animation studio of the former Soviet Union...

, but was fired over noncompliance with company's policy (he tried to implement several innovations). Later he worked at "Diafilm", a children's book publisher, at the satiric magazine Krokodil

Krokodil

Krokodil was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922. At that time, a large number of satirical magazines existed, such as Zanoza and Prozhektor...

, and Vesyolye kartinki magazine.

Among his major achievements are illustrations to Aleksandr Volkov

Alexander Melentyevich Volkov

Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Soviet novelist and mathematician.He wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L...

 novels on Emerald City and Kir Bulychev

Kir Bulychev

Kir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko , who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965...

's novels. He used his animation experience to create a "motion blur" effect in his works.

Migunov illustrations for Strugatsky Brothers' Monday Begins on Saturday

Monday Begins on Saturday

Monday Begins on Saturday is a 1964 science fiction / science fantasy novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Set in a fictional town in northern Russia, where highly classified research in magic occurs, the novel is a satire of Soviet scientific research institutes, complete with an inept...

and The Tale of the Troika

Tale of the Troika

Tale of the Troika is a 1968 satirical science fiction novel written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky that criticises both Soviet bureaucracy and somewhat the Soviet scientific environment...

are considered by many an inalienable part of the novels.

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