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Mykola Mykolaiovych Zhukov was a Soviet artist, graphic artist, painter, poster artist, and illustrator. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1963) and the laureate of two Stalin Prizes (1943, 1951). Born on November 19 (December 2), 1908 in Moscow, he received his primary art education at the Nizhny Novgorod Art and Industrial College. In 1928, he entered the O.P. Boholyubov Saratov Art School, where he graduated in 1930. His creative activity began in 1932. Zhukov took part in World War II, creating hundreds of front-line drawings and leaflets and dozens of posters. In 1946, he was present at the Nuremberg Trials. The result was the creation of a unique reporting graphic series of 250 drawings. Zhukov was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal "For Valiant Labor during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". After the war, he worked in the field of easel graphics and easel painting. He was a master of the easel portrait. Zhukov died on September 23, 1973 in Moscow. The artist's works are kept in many art museums in the post-Soviet space.