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Eduard Uspenskiy - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born December 22, 1937, Yegoryevsk, Moscow Region - Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, author of children's books.
Educated at the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) and becoming an engineer, he made a living writing and doing cartoon scripts. In addition to children's books, Ouspensky wrote poems and theatrical scenes from the cycle about Cheburashka, "Gena the Crocodile and His Friends" .
Uspensky's first book about Uncle Fyodor, "Uncle Fyodor, Dog and Cat", was published in 1974. The main character was a six-year-old boy, who was called Uncle Fedor because he was very independent. After his parents forbade him to leave the talking homeless cat Matroskin in the apartment, Uncle Fyodor left home. Together with Matroskin and the dog Sharik, the three of them settled in the village of Prostokvashino. After finding the treasure, they were able to buy a tractor that drives soup and potatoes. Three popular animated films were shot based on the book: "Three from Prostokvashino", "Holidays in Prostokvashino" and "Winter in Prostokvashino" .
He is the chairman of the jury of the "Cherished Dream" award. Also in 1986 he was a jury member in the first games of the revived Higher League of KVN. Eduard Uspensky is the organizer of such programs as "Good night, kids!", "ABVGDeyka", "Radio nanny" and "Ships came to our harbor" .
In 2007-2008, member of the Supreme Council of the political party "Civil Power" .
In 2010, Uspensky was awarded the Korney Chukovsky Prize, established for children's writers, in the main nomination "For Outstanding Creative Achievements in Russian Children's Literature" .
In March 2017, a teacher at a children's camp renting premises in the Yeltsin Center forced a teenager who was swearing to wash his mouth with soap and water in the toilet. Although neither the boy's mother, nor he himself expressed any complaints about this method of upbringing, the deputy executive director of the Yeltsin Center, Lyudmila Telen, said that the teacher would be “immediately” fired. Eduard Uspensky spoke out in defense of the teacher and the method of upbringing she used, declaring that such people must be "protected" and that the teacher must be "immediately reinstated" at work.
