Background
Tsigal was born into a Jewish family in Odessa in 1916.
Tsigal was born into a Jewish family in Odessa in 1916.
State Academic Institute of Fine Arts Surikov.
Tsigal was commissioned to design the new Soviet Rouble bank note which was issued in 1961. Tsigal became an expert on the production and design of banknotes and travelled widely from the 1960s until the late 1980s giving the benefit of his expertise to Communist groups and organisations in a number of countries.
He became a noted painter and produced a large body of work in the socialist realist style.