Eduard Vasilievich Nazarov (Russian: Ðдуард Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡
Разаров; 23 November 1941 â€" 11 September 2016) was a Soviet
and Russian animator, screenwriter, voice actor, book illustrator and
educator, artistic director at the Pilot Studio (2007â€"2016),
vice-president of ASIFA (1987â€"1999) and a co-president of the KROK
International Animated Films Festival. He was awarded People's Artist
of Russia in 2012.Eduard Nazarov was born in a bomb shelter during the
Battle of Moscow. His parents were Russian engineers who met at the
end of 1930s while studying at Moscow institutes. Nazarov's ancestors
came from the Bryansk Oblast and had a peasant background. He became
engaged in painting since childhood and while in the 9th grade entered
an art school where he got acquainted with Yuri Norstein, his close
friend since.After three years in the Soviet Army Nazarov entered
Stroganov Institute. Simultaneously he started working at
Soyuzmultfilm in 1959 as an apprentice, self-educating, since he was
too late for the animation courses. He worked as an artist-renderer,
an art director's assistant under Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and as an art
director under Fyodor Khitruk, most famously creating Winnie-the-Pooh
for the Soviet adaptation of the fairy tale.
Разаров; 23 November 1941 â€" 11 September 2016) was a Soviet
and Russian animator, screenwriter, voice actor, book illustrator and
educator, artistic director at the Pilot Studio (2007â€"2016),
vice-president of ASIFA (1987â€"1999) and a co-president of the KROK
International Animated Films Festival. He was awarded People's Artist
of Russia in 2012.Eduard Nazarov was born in a bomb shelter during the
Battle of Moscow. His parents were Russian engineers who met at the
end of 1930s while studying at Moscow institutes. Nazarov's ancestors
came from the Bryansk Oblast and had a peasant background. He became
engaged in painting since childhood and while in the 9th grade entered
an art school where he got acquainted with Yuri Norstein, his close
friend since.After three years in the Soviet Army Nazarov entered
Stroganov Institute. Simultaneously he started working at
Soyuzmultfilm in 1959 as an apprentice, self-educating, since he was
too late for the animation courses. He worked as an artist-renderer,
an art director's assistant under Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and as an art
director under Fyodor Khitruk, most famously creating Winnie-the-Pooh
for the Soviet adaptation of the fairy tale.
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