"Diversion against children": as "Cheburashka" became the new Russian best-seller and for what do not love it

On August 20 to Russian Federation celebrate Birthday of the Cheburashka. The most charming hero of the Soviet animation entered long ago respectable age – today he is 57 years old. How the unclear small animal became a symbol of the Russian Olympic team? And to that we are taught by history about a fluffy toy which found in oranges? Read in Good. Magazine. In total thanks to cinema the Freakish small animal issued from Edouard Nikolaevich Uspensky in 1966. Then the main character of the story "Gena's crocodile and his friends" did not cause a big response from the Soviet readers. Helped to become an idol of generation to the Cheburashka the animated film Kachanov Roman...