Artemy Lebedev

Lebedev is a member of the Tolstoy family.

Artemy Lebedev studied at Parkville High School, Moscow State School 57 and MSU Faculty of Journalism. The recorded working language is English and Russian. Employment is recorded with Art. Positions recorded include art director. Distinctions recorded are Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords, Gold Play Button and Silver Play Button.

• Name — Artemy Lebedev • Native Name — Артемий Лебедев • Born — 13 February 1975 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Founder of Art. Lebedev Studio • Years Active — 1995–present • Children — 10 • Mother — Tatyana Tolstaya • Website — https: www.tema.ru

Born in Moscow February 13, 1975, Lebedev is the son of the Russian writer Tatyana Tolstaya and a member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. He graduated from Moscow State School 57. He enrolled at Faculty of Journalism at the Moscow State University, but dropped out during his second year. He spent the following years working for a few design studios until 1995 when he founded his own company. According to The Best Travelled Master List, Lebedev is one of the very few people in the world and the only Russian who has travelled to each of the 193 countries of the World.

In 1995, Lebedev founded design studio WebDesign, which in 1998 was renamed the Artemy Lebedev Studio. The company has completed works in corporate identity, books, magazines, road signs, pictograms, graphical and physical interfaces, websites, industrial design, industrial graphics objects, and storefronts.

One of the headings of the site was that anyone could send Lebedev a graphic object or a website, and he, in turn, made up his critical opinion of this work. The column was called "Spanking" and was published quarterly. Later, the heading was renamed "Polit spanking". By 2006, the category was closed and removed from the site. On September 1 of the same year, the column was restored and called "Business Lynch", but now it was not only Lebedev who reviewed it. In September 2019, the project was terminated.

In October 2023, Lebedev was appointed design director of VK, a Russian state-controlled social media platform.

In 2020, Lebedev appeared in a promotional video in support of 2020 Russian constitutional referendum. Russian President Vladimir Putin later awarded Lebedev with an Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" in the 2nd degree for his contributions to the Russian segment of the Internet. Artemy Lebedev Studio designed the official logo for the region of Crimea shortly after its 2014 Russian annexation, a step which drew criticism as being aligned with the occupied status of the territory. Lebedev was banned from entering Ukraine in March 2017. According to the Holodomor National Museum, Lebedev actively supports the Russian invasion, has travelled to occupied Crimea and Donbas, and has made public statements denying the existence of a Ukrainian nation-state (“there are no Ukrainians, Ukraine is a region of Russia”). In March 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) charged Lebedev with collaborationism and justifying Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine. The charges relate to his 2022 visits to occupied Ukrainian territory (including the Ukrainian city of Mariupol and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant) in June 2022 and propaganda activities. Lebedev called the visit one of "my life's small joys." In July 2023, two Kyiv apartments owned by Lebedev were seized by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice. Lebedev was barred from entering Latvia in 2024 and Armenia in 2025.

Artemy Lebedev was recorded at birth as Артемий Андреевич Лебедев. He also worked under the name tema. The authorities additionally record the heading Artemy Andreyevich Lebedev. His recorded languages were English and Russian. His recorded confession was atheism. He was the child of Andrey Lebedev and Tatyana Tolstaya. He married Marina Litvinovich.

Artemy Lebedev is recorded as having studied at Parkville High School, Moscow State School 57 and MSU Faculty of Journalism.