“It's nice to do something in a single copy ... I give these sketches to my old friend Sergey Lavrov or Elvira Nabiullina, who already have a decent collection of my works,” the minister noted.

According to the head of the defense department, he began to draw as a child, and now considers his passion to be an “outlet”.

In June, it was reported that an exhibition was opened at the National Museum of Tuva in Kyzyl, which presented paintings and drawings, as well as artistic wood carvings made by Shoigu.