Eduard Uspensky, frame of the Rain TV channel

The Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter Eduard Uspensky died in the 81st year of his life in New Moscow.

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“Eduard Nikolaevich died,” the source of Interfax said . According to him, this happened in the writer’s house in New Moscow.
According to REN-TV , on August 9, it became known that he had lost consciousness. According to TASS, the Assumptions found a malignant neoplasm.
Eduard Uspensky was born in 1937. Having received the education of an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute, Uspensky became famous as a children's writer and author of scripts for cartoons. Among the popular characters invented by him are the crocodile Gene and Cheburashka, the cat Matroskin, Uncle Fedor, the postman Pechkin, the Dog Sharik, the Brothers Kolobok, the warranty men ( a list of his most famous cartoons ). More details of his biography can be read here .
The characters of the cartoon about Prostokvashino were used to build one of the main brands in the Russian dairy market. In 2002, the Unimilk company (later was bought by Danone) rented the Prostokvashino trading sign from Uspensky. By 2009, according to Nielsen, Prostokvashino became the most popular dairy brand in Russia.