Yevgeniy Sidorkin is an outstanding Kazakh graphic artist. However, he was not born in Kazakhstan. He was born on the 9th of May, 1930. 15 years later, this date, the 9th of May, will become the Day of Victory over Hitler’s invaders. He was born in a special place with a poetic name - the village of Lebyazhye (Swan’s). In Russia. Then the family lived in Lithuania for some time. What circumstances brought him to Kazakhstan and how was his artistic destiny connected with our country?