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David CherkasskyDavid Yanovich Cherkassky (Russian: Давид Янович Черкасский; 23 August 1932 – 30 October 2018)[1][2] was a Soviet and Ukrainian animated film director and screenwriter. He made several tv show animations for Kievnauchfilm such as The Adventures of Captain Vrungel, Doctor Aybolite, and Ostrov sokrovishch. BiographyDavid Cherkassky was born in 1932 into a Jewish household in Shpola, Ukrainian SSR.[2] Cherkassky graduated from the Kiev Construction Engineering Institute.[3] 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.[3] Cherkassky in interview acknowledged that he was born on 23 August 1932.[4] During World War II, he and his mother were evacuated to a village[4] near the Russian city of Chkalov (today Orenburg).[3] David Cherkassky was a member of the Ukrainian gymnast team.[3] Since he was 50, and until he was 80, Cherkassky enjoyed alpine skiing.[3] After the death of Stalin, Cherkassky found out that his family origin is a small city of Shpola in Central Ukraine and he has some extensive family in the United States.[4] His father was a director of typography after the revolution and later he served as an assistant to People's Commissar of Justice.[4] He was married to animator and animation director Natalya Marchenkova.[5] FilmographyDirector
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