Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotyonochkin (also known as Kotenochkin)
(Russian: Ð'Ñ Ñ‡ÐµÑ Ð»Ð°Ð² Михайлович КотÑ'ночкин)
(June 20, 1927 â€" November 20, 2000) was a Soviet and Russian
animation director, animator and artist. He was named People’s
Artist of the RSFSR in 1987. He is most famous for directing the
popular animated series Well, Just You Wait!Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin
was born in Moscow into a Russian family of Mikhail Mikhailovich
Kotyonochkin (1900â€"1941), an accountant and a native Muscovite who
died from tuberculosis shortly before the Great Patriotic War, and
Eugenia Andreevna Kotyonochkina (née Shirshova) (1906â€"1962), a
housewife whose family moved to Moscow from Kimry, Tver Governorate.
His maternal grandfather Andrei Ivanovich Shirshov came from peasants,
while his wife Maria Vasilievna Komissarova belonged to a wealthy
family with an estate in Kimry which they had to abandon after the
October Revolution. His earliest known paternal ancestor lived under a
Koshkin surname (from the word koshka â€" cat) and owned a restaurant
and a confectionery store in Moscow, but his twin sons were nicknamed
"kittens" which transformed into a rare Kotyonochkin surname with time
(from the word kotyonok â€" kitten). Vyacheslav was baptized in a
Moscow Orthodox church soon after birth.In 1938 he visited a New Year
celebration for children at the House of the Unions where they were
shown a collection of the first Soviet color animated films. He was so
impressed that he started taking drawing courses at a Pioneers Palace.
In 1942 Kotyonochkin finished seven classes of the middle school and
entered an artillery special school, then he was sent to the Penza
anti-tank artillery school where he studied until the war's end. He
also learned to play cornet in a military band.Soon after the war
Kotyonochkin met the acclaimed Soviet animator Boris Dyozhkin who
suggested him to enter the animation courses organized by
Soyuzmultfilm. In 1947 he graduated and started his career as an
animator at the studio. During the next 50 years he worked on more
than 80 films. From 1962 on he served as an animation director. He
became closely associated with the Fitil satirical almanac by Sergey
Mikhalkov and created 17 animated shorts for it during the next 25
years.
(Russian: Ð'Ñ Ñ‡ÐµÑ Ð»Ð°Ð² Михайлович КотÑ'ночкин)
(June 20, 1927 â€" November 20, 2000) was a Soviet and Russian
animation director, animator and artist. He was named People’s
Artist of the RSFSR in 1987. He is most famous for directing the
popular animated series Well, Just You Wait!Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin
was born in Moscow into a Russian family of Mikhail Mikhailovich
Kotyonochkin (1900â€"1941), an accountant and a native Muscovite who
died from tuberculosis shortly before the Great Patriotic War, and
Eugenia Andreevna Kotyonochkina (née Shirshova) (1906â€"1962), a
housewife whose family moved to Moscow from Kimry, Tver Governorate.
His maternal grandfather Andrei Ivanovich Shirshov came from peasants,
while his wife Maria Vasilievna Komissarova belonged to a wealthy
family with an estate in Kimry which they had to abandon after the
October Revolution. His earliest known paternal ancestor lived under a
Koshkin surname (from the word koshka â€" cat) and owned a restaurant
and a confectionery store in Moscow, but his twin sons were nicknamed
"kittens" which transformed into a rare Kotyonochkin surname with time
(from the word kotyonok â€" kitten). Vyacheslav was baptized in a
Moscow Orthodox church soon after birth.In 1938 he visited a New Year
celebration for children at the House of the Unions where they were
shown a collection of the first Soviet color animated films. He was so
impressed that he started taking drawing courses at a Pioneers Palace.
In 1942 Kotyonochkin finished seven classes of the middle school and
entered an artillery special school, then he was sent to the Penza
anti-tank artillery school where he studied until the war's end. He
also learned to play cornet in a military band.Soon after the war
Kotyonochkin met the acclaimed Soviet animator Boris Dyozhkin who
suggested him to enter the animation courses organized by
Soyuzmultfilm. In 1947 he graduated and started his career as an
animator at the studio. During the next 50 years he worked on more
than 80 films. From 1962 on he served as an animation director. He
became closely associated with the Fitil satirical almanac by Sergey
Mikhalkov and created 17 animated shorts for it during the next 25
years.
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