What is Eduard Uspensky?
[[File:Eduard Uspensky 1 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Uspensky in September 2011]] '''Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky''' ({{lang-ru|Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Успе́нский}}; 22 December 1937 — 14 August 2018) was a Russian author and screenwriter. He wrote many [[children's book]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n88-216074 |title=Uspenskiĭ, Ė (Ėduard) |access-date=April 16, 2010 |publisher=WorldCat Identities |archive-date=July 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728134813/http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n88-216074/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was born in [[Yegoryevsk]], [[Soviet Union]]. Among his most beloved characters are a serious but adventurous boy known as [[Uncle Fyodor]] from ''Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat''. He also wrote screenplays, his best known ones were ''[[Gena the Crocodile (movie)|Gena the Crocodile]]'' and ''[[Plasticine Crow]]''. Uspensky died in [[Moscow]] on 14 August 2018 from [[liver cancer]], aged 80.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bobrtimes.com/died-eduard-uspensky/88507/ |title=Died Eduard Uspensky |access-date=2018-08-15 |archive-date=2018-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815090922/https://bobrtimes.com/died-eduard-uspensky/88507/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *{{official website|http://www.uspens.info}} {{in lang|ru}} *{{IMDb name|0882417}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Uspensky, Eduard}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from liver cancer]] [[Category:Russian novelists]] [[Category:Russian screenwriters]]