"Mikhail Vladimirovich Pereyaslavets is gone," TASS quotes a spokesman for the academy's press service.
According to the agency, since 1976 Pereyaslavets worked at the Grekov Studio of Military Artists.
On July 20, it became known about the death of the People's Artist of Russia, the author of the image of the bear cub - the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, Viktor Chizhikov.