Eduard Uspensky died

In the village of Puchkovo in New Moscow, a children's writer Edward Uspensky died on Tuesday at the age of 80. This was then reported by Ren-TV.

In recent years, the Assumption was ill with cancer. In early August, he returned after treatment from Germany.

The writer was born on December 22, 1937 in the city of Yegoryevsk near Moscow in the family of an official of the apparatus of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Nikolai Uspensky. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute.

Uspensky began to be printed as a student. I was very popular with the release in 1966 by the story "Crocodile Gene and his friends." Another famous book of the writer was the story "Uncle Fedor, dog and cat" (1974). In addition to them, Uspensky wrote dozens of children's books, including a number of new stories from the cycles about the Crocodile Gene and Uncle Fedor.

The author of the scenarios of dozens of cartoons, including paintings about the crocodile gene and Uncle Fedor, as well as "Uncle Au" (1979), "Baba Yaga against!" (1980), "Plasticine crow" (1981), "The investigation is led by Koloboks" (1986-1987), "About Vera and Anfisa" (1986-1988).

Among other works are plays and scenarios of playing films.

One of the authors of the programs "Good night, kids!" and "Abvgdeika" on television and "Radiona" on the radio.

In 2007-2008, he was a member of the Supreme Council of the Civil Power System Liberal Party. In 2017, he signed the appeal of the Congress of the intelligentsia in defense of the International Center for the Roerichs in Moscow.

According to Ukrainian Pravda, in 2014, after the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, the Assumption said in an interview with the rain: "The country was divided by 10 percent of smart and 90 percent of idiots. I believe that I belong to 10 (percent) smart, because this whole story with the Crimea is ugly."

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the writer has been actively suing copyrights for characters in his books.