Yuri Pavlovich Shvets (russian: Юрий Павлович Швец; born in
Poltava 1902 – 1972) was a Soviet cinematic artist, famous for art and scenery especially of fantasy and science-fiction films.
As a youth, Shvets held several jobs, then studied at and graduated from both the Music and Drama Institute of Mykola Lysenko and the Arts Institute in
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The scientific accuracy of Shvets' work was praised by the Russian rocket scientist
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (russian: Константи́н Эдуа́рдович Циолко́вский , , p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ɪdʊˈardəvʲɪtɕ tsɨɐlˈkofskʲɪj , a=Ru-Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.oga; – 19 September 1935) ...
when the two met in 1934.
Shvets did artwork for over fifty films,
including:
* (1935) ''
Kosmicheskiy reys'' (''Cosmic Journey'' or ''Space flight'')
* (1935) ''Novii Gulliver'' (''
The New Gulliver
''The New Gulliver'' (russian: Новый Гулливер, ''Novyy Gullivyer'') is a Soviet stop motion-animated cartoon, and the first to make such extensive use of puppet animation, running almost all the way through the film (it begins and ends ...
'')
* (1959) ''
Nebo Zovyot'' (''The Sky Calls'')
* (1951) ''Вселенная'' (''Universe'')
* (1965) ''
Luna
Luna commonly refers to:
* Earth's Moon, named "Luna" in Latin
* Luna (goddess), the ancient Roman personification of the Moon
Luna may also refer to:
Places Philippines
* Luna, Apayao
* Luna, Isabela
* Luna, La Union
* Luna, San Jose
Roma ...
'' (''Moon'')
* (1968) ''
Марс'' (''Mars'')
References
1902 births
1972 deaths
Artists from Poltava
Soviet production designers
Science fiction artists
Ukrainian speculative fiction artists
Space artists
20th-century Ukrainian painters
20th-century Ukrainian male artists
Ukrainian male painters
Mass media people from Poltava
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