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Roman Abelevich Kachanov (Ruvim Abelevich Kachanov) was born on 25 February, 1921 in Smolensk, Soviet Union, is a Soviet animator. Discover Roman Abelevich Kachanov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Ruvim Abelevich Kachanov
Occupation Film director Screenwriter Art director Animator
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 25 February 1921
Birthday 25 February
Birthplace Smolensk, Soviet Union
Date of death 4 July, 1993
Died Place Moscow, Russia
Nationality Oman

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1921

Roman Abelevich Kachanov (Роман Абелевич Качанов; 25 February 1921 – 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.

1932

His mother died in 1932, when he was 11 years old.

1939

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.

1940

In 1940, the plane Kachanov was flying crashed.

The pilot was killed; Kachanov was hospitalized with serious injuries.

1941

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.

1945

In 1945, due to Kachanov's war service he was promoted to sergeant.

1946

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.

1947

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).

1958

In 1958, Kachanov and Anatoly Karanovich directed his first film, The Old Man and the Crane.

1959

In 1959 he directed Nazim Hikmet's screenplay in Love Cloud, which received awards at festivals in Annecy, Oberhausen and Bucharest.

With assistant work in the past, directing these two films gave him the experience to later switch primarily to directing.

Kachanov's films The Mitten, Crocodile Gena and The Mystery of the Third Planet have become Russian classics.

1967

In 1967 Kachanov's animated film, The Mitten, received widespread international and domestic recognition.

The first puppet animation in the Soviet Union, it became a 20th-century international animation classic.

1983

These three films (and a fourth, 1983's Cheburashka Goes to School) created the animated characters of Cheburashka, Crocodile Gena and old woman Shapoklyak, who entered Russian culture and are still referenced in audiovisual, pop-cultural and folkloric works.

The animated cult SF film is based on a story by Kir Bulychov, "Alice's Journey".