★From the renowned Russian artist Nikolai Yevgenyevich Vatagin, whose works are collected by the Tretyakov Gallery of the Russian State Art Museum, Tarusa Art Museum, Innsbruck City Hall, and other domestic and international museums and private collections!
★A mobilization of land transportation! The classic and lifelike pictures of various means of transportation allow children to understand the types, names, and uses of different vehicles, effectively broadening their horizons and cultivating their powers of observation. It is a must - have for preschool children!
★An essential encyclopedia for young mothers! With this book, there is no need to abstractly explain the concept of vehicles to children. Instead, you can directly show and tell them, allowing the children to observe for themselves!
★A five-star-rated children's book on the Russian online bookstore OZON that will make children fall in love at first sight!

Look at these vehicles. Their shapes are so interesting. What are their uses? Here you will find trucks, buses, trolleybuses, sedans, freight cars, fire engines, street sweepers, police cars, racing cars, ambulances, cranes, motorcycles, bicycles, Antarctic snowmobiles, oil tankers... There are vehicles that are pretty on the outside, those with strange appearances, big ones, small ones, good ones, and not - so - good ones... They are everywhere, and our lives are inseparable from them!

【Author】Nikolai Yevgenyevich Vatagin (1959)
A renowned Russian sculptor, portrait painter, oil painter, and book illustrator, as well as a member of the Russian Artists' Association. Born into an artistic family, he is the grandson of Soviet animal sculptor and painter Vasily Vatagin and Antonina Nikolaevna Rzhevskaya (daughter of painter Antonina Leondardovna Rzhevskaya). He graduated from the Moscow Central Art School and later entered the Surikov Art Institute (graduated in 1982 under the guidance of Professor Tair Salakhov).
Since 1979, he has held exhibitions in Russia, Italy, Germany, and other countries. His works are collected by the Tretyakov Gallery of the Russian State Art Museum, Tarusa Art Museum, Innsbruck City Hall, and other domestic and international museums and private collections. In the 1990s, influenced by his neighbor - sculptor Anatoly Komarov - he began to venture into sculpture. Nikolai Yevgenyevich Vatagin is renowned for his wood carvings, especially for his depictions of Russian writers (such as Solzhenitsyn). His works are characterized by modernist formal simplification, slight grotesqueness, and gentle humor. He describes his style as a "mixture of Klimov's icon mountain, Malevich, and Otto Dix." Critics have commented, "Vatagin's use of color - whether on canvas or in sculpture - possesses precise locality and exquisite symbolic significance."
He has authored works such as "Nikolai Vatagin's Russian Writers: Sculptures and Drawings," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking - Glass: Nikolai Vatagin's Sculptures and Drawings," "Unknown Works of Famous Artists: Nikolai Vatagin's Drawings," "Maritime Traffic Mobilization," "Cars on the Go," "Light Verse," "The Sea Witch and the Fool," and "Let Me Go to Italy, or the Citrus Bird." His work "Maritime Traffic Mobilization: A Journey Through the Skies, Surface, and Depths of the Ocean" won the "Image of the Book" award at the Russian International Illustration and Book Design Competition! This award is jointly organized by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of Russia and the Moscow Book Illustrators and Designers Association.

- Exhibitions
- **1979 - Group exhibition at the Moscow MIIT Palace of Culture**
- **1989 - 17th Youth Artists' Exhibition, Moscow Kuznetsky Most 11**
- **1990 - Group exhibition at "La galeria" in Milan, Italy (in collaboration with P. Orlovsky)**
- **1991 - Obidos Painting Biennale, Portugal**
- **1991 - Group exhibition of Russian artists (participants: I. Nikolayev, I. Lubennikov, etc.), Hamburg, Germany**
- **1992 - Group exhibition of young artists, Sofia Central Exhibition Hall, Bulgaria**
- **1993 - Exhibition of the "Branch" art group, Moscow Central House of Artists**
- **1994 - Joint exhibition with P. Bragovsky, Komov, and others, Zabulin Street Exhibition Hall, Moscow**
- **1996 - Solo exhibition, Tarusa Art Gallery**
- **1999 - Joint exhibition with P. Bragovsky, S. Surkovtsev, and others, Moscow Kuznetsky Most 20**
- **2000 - 2001 - "Moscow - St. Petersburg" dual - city exhibition, Manege Exhibition Hall in both cities**
- **2002 - Exhibition of Moscow oil painters, Central House of Artists**
- **2012 - "Lewis Carroll's Fairy - Tale Sculpture Exhibition," Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoe Village)**
- **2014 - Joint exhibition with Alexandra Bier, Vasily Vatagin, "GROSart" Gallery ("Central House of Artists - 2014: Connections of the Times" salon)**
- **2015 - Pasternak Memorial Museum (Peredelkino)**
- **2019 - "Nikolai Vatagin - Chopping and Carving!" Solo exhibition, Moscow "Artefakt" Gallery**