Painted by Boris Kukuliev. If anyone can find a larger version I would be very greatful
damn middle bit would be a dope tattoo with some other stellar imagery.
I upscaled it here https://hexbear.net/post/199675
(Idk where else best to upload it)
Found a PDF of the book that this originally came from: Лиханов Альберт Анатольевич, "Сын России", Молодая гвардия, 1982 (Source website). This is of much better quality than anything I could find through reverse image search, even excessively so as the built-in Firefox PDF reader fails to display most pages and Microsoft Edge just barely chugs along.
The image in question at 2716x1319 resolution. Unfortunately, due to my lack of knowledge in operating GIMP this has lost some quality over the PDF version. If anyone is experienced in that and wants an even higher-resolution version, it's at page 52 of the PDF.
If you squint at it hard enough it looks like weird concept art for Katamari Damacy
i can't find anything bigger than 1200 pixels in width :deeper-sadness:
