Happy Birthday!

Sokolniki MEC heartily congratulates Ilya Bogdesko, People’s Artist of the USSR, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, with his 85th birthday!

We wish you successful work, good health, peaceful family life, and spiritual harmony!

We join this warm and kind congratulation:

Your age is more like salad days
These years you haven’t spent in vain
Your path is long
Your deeds are great
Let life bring forth its wondrous traits
Count not your time
Stay young at heart
And never give a sigh of grief.

Sincerely yours,
Sokolniki MEC

Alexey Shaburov, President of Sokolniki MEC and his team visited Ilya Bogdesko, People’s Artist of the USSR, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, and personally congratulated the artist giving him a present on his 85th anniversary.