David Yanovich Cherkassky ( uk, Давид Янович Черкаський, translit=Davyd Yanovych Cherkas'kyi; 23 August 1932 – 30 October 2018) was a Soviet and Ukrainian animated film director and screenwriter. He made several animation pictures for

Kievnauchfilm Kievnauchfilm (russian: Киевнаучфильм), also Kyivnaukfilm ( uk, Київнаукфільм, translit=Kyïvnaukfil′m), translated as Kyiv Science Film, was a film studio in the former Soviet Union located in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR. Alt ...

Biography

David Cherkassky was born in 1932 in

Shpola Shpola ( uk, Шпола, ; yi, שפּאָלע, Shpole) is a city located in Zvenyhorodka Raion of Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Shpola urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had a popu ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

. Cherkassky graduated from the Kiev Construction Engineering Institute.Roman Huba.
Experienced Wrongel. David Cherkassky about his works, friends and hobbies (Опытный Врунгель. Давид Черкасский о своих работах, друзьях и увлечениях)
'. Focus (Ukraine). 28 June 2017 He noted that Soviet parents anticipated that the Soviet Union will participate in war and so registered their children later to delay them to be drafted to army. Cherkassky in interview acknowledged that he was born in 23 August 1932.Hordiychuk, I,
Intellectual Rabelaisian (Интеллектуальный раблезианец)
'. The Day. 23 August 2017 During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, he and his mother were evacuated to a village near the Russian city of Chkalov (today

Orenburg Orenburg (russian: Оренбу́рг, ), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Ural River, southeast of Moscow. Orenburg is also very close to the Kazakhstan-Russia bor ...

). David Cherkassky was a member of the Ukrainian krainian SSRgymnast team. Since he was 50, and until he was 80, Cherkassky enjoyed

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. After the death of Stalin, Cherkassky found out that his family origin is a small city of

Central Ukraine Central Ukraine ( uk, Центральна Україна, ''Tsentralna Ukraina'') consists of historical regions of left-bank Ukraine and right-bank Ukraine that reference to the Dnipro River. It is situated away from the Black Sea Littoral N ...

and he has some extensive family in the

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. His father was a director of typography after the

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and later he served as an assistant to People's Commissar of Justice. He was married to animator and animation director

Natalya Marchenkova Natalya Semyonovna Marchenkova ( Ukrainian: Марченкова Наталя Семенівна; Russian: Наталья Семёновна Марченкова; born 1948) is a Soviet and Ukrainian animator and animation director. Biography ...

Filmography

Director

* 1964 Mystery of the Black King (russian: Тайна чёрного короля) along with Sergei Lyalin * 1967 Columbus is landing on the coast (russian: Колумб причаливает к берегу) * 1969 Mystery-Bouffe (russian: Мистерия-буфф) * 1970 Short stories (russian: Короткие истории) * 1971 Wizard Okh (russian: Волшебник Ох) * 1972 Around the World against the Will (russian: Вокруг света поневоле) * 1974 Pharaohs, good-bye! (russian: Прощайте, фараоны!) along with Vyacheslav Vinnik * 1975 What the hell do you want? (russian: Какого рожна хочется?) * 1979

Adventures of Captain Wrongel ''Adventures of Captain Wrongel'' (russian: Приключения капитана Врунгеля, translit. ''Priklyucheniya kapitana Vrungelya'') is a 1976-1979 Soviet Cutout animation-Traditional musical adventure animation comedy miniserie ...

(russian: Приключения капитана Врунгеля) * 1983 Wings (russian: Крылья) * 1984 Doctor Aybolit (russian: Доктор Айболит) * 1988

Treasure Island ''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure no ...

(russian: Остров сокровищ) * 1992 Crazy macaroni or the error of professor Bugensberg (russian: Макароны смерти, или Ошибка профессора Буггенсберга), the motion picture was not finished

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cherkassky, David 1932 births 2018 deaths People from Shpola Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture alumni Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class Kievnauchfilm Soviet animators Soviet Jews Soviet screenwriters Ukrainian animated film directors Ukrainian animators Ukrainian Jews Ukrainian screenwriters