Roman Abelevich Kachanov (Russian: Роман Рбелевич
Качанов; 25 February 1921 â€" 4 July 1993) was a Soviet
animator who worked primarily in the stop-motion animation technique.
He directed the popular series of films about Cheburashka: Gena the
Crocodile, Cheburashka, Shapoklyak and Cheburashka Goes to
School.Kachanov was born in 1921 in Smolensk. His mother was Haya
Yakovlevna Kachanova; his father, Abel Mendelevich Kachanov, was a
shoemaker. His mother died in 1932, when he was 11 years old. In
spring 1939, Kachanov was called up for military service in the Red
Army in the town of Chkalovsky, near Moscow. This deployment separated
him permanently from his father and his only, older sister Maria (both
were killed in Smolensk during the Holocaust).After attending flying
school in Krasnoyarsk, Kachanov flew fighter planes as a tail gunner.
In 1940, the plane Kachanov was flying crashed. The pilot was killed;
Kachanov was hospitalized with serious injuries. In spring 1941,
Kachanov entered the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering.
From 1941 to 1945, he served in the airborne forces as a parachute
instructor and took part in special operations behind enemy lines. In
1945, due to Kachanov's war service he was promoted to sergeant. Even
before demobilization in 1946, he decided to work in cinema and
transferred to service at the Ministry of Defence studio in the
Bolshevo.After demobilization, Kachanov went to Soyuzmultfilm and
studied animation. From 1947 to 1957 he worked as animator, assistant
director and production designer for film directors and animators of
the older generation: Dmitry Babichenko, Valentina and Zinaida
Brumberg, Lev Atamanov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Vladimir Polkovnikov
(whom Kachanov regarded as his directing mentor).
Качанов; 25 February 1921 â€" 4 July 1993) was a Soviet
animator who worked primarily in the stop-motion animation technique.
He directed the popular series of films about Cheburashka: Gena the
Crocodile, Cheburashka, Shapoklyak and Cheburashka Goes to
School.Kachanov was born in 1921 in Smolensk. His mother was Haya
Yakovlevna Kachanova; his father, Abel Mendelevich Kachanov, was a
shoemaker. His mother died in 1932, when he was 11 years old. In
spring 1939, Kachanov was called up for military service in the Red
Army in the town of Chkalovsky, near Moscow. This deployment separated
him permanently from his father and his only, older sister Maria (both
were killed in Smolensk during the Holocaust).After attending flying
school in Krasnoyarsk, Kachanov flew fighter planes as a tail gunner.
In 1940, the plane Kachanov was flying crashed. The pilot was killed;
Kachanov was hospitalized with serious injuries. In spring 1941,
Kachanov entered the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering.
From 1941 to 1945, he served in the airborne forces as a parachute
instructor and took part in special operations behind enemy lines. In
1945, due to Kachanov's war service he was promoted to sergeant. Even
before demobilization in 1946, he decided to work in cinema and
transferred to service at the Ministry of Defence studio in the
Bolshevo.After demobilization, Kachanov went to Soyuzmultfilm and
studied animation. From 1947 to 1957 he worked as animator, assistant
director and production designer for film directors and animators of
the older generation: Dmitry Babichenko, Valentina and Zinaida
Brumberg, Lev Atamanov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Vladimir Polkovnikov
(whom Kachanov regarded as his directing mentor).
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