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Vasily Alekseyevich Vatagin (20 December 1883 – 31 May 1969) was a Russian and Soviet wildlife artist who worked on a variety of media producing paintings, sculpture, reliefs and illustrations. His works have been used in books and are installed in many institution in Russia. He was a professor at the Moscow Higher School of Arts and Industry. Vatagin worked on racial and anthropological themes briefly. While in Berlin in 1926 he stayed with Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky. Between 1924 and 1929 he produced masks of the people of the Soviet Union for the Moscow Museum of Ethnology.