Leonid Shvartsman
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Leonid Aronovich Shvartsman was a Soviet and Russian animator and visual artist. He spent most of his creative career at the Soyuzmultfilm, in Moscow, where he worked as an art director on Cheburashka
Shvartsman in 2011
Shvartsman with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2017
Yuri Norstein
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Yuri Borisovich Norstein is a Russian animator best known for his animated shorts Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales made in collaboration with his wife, Francheska Yarbusova. Since 1981, he has be
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…People. Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, he signed a public letter condemning the invasion, along with other notable animators such as Yuri Norstein and Garri Bardin. Shvartsman died of natural causes on 2 July 2022 at the age of 101. On 5 July 2022, a funeral service was held at the Church of St…
Norstein in 2012
Hedgehog in the Fog (1975), one of Norstein's most widely known works