RIP Vyacheslav Nazaruk

 

Animator Vyacheslav Nazaruk has died. He created the images of the cat Leopold and the Mammoth

 

RTVI

1/29/2023

 

Yesterday, on January 28, at the 82nd year of life, production designer Vyacheslav Nazaruk, who created such popular cartoon characters as Mammoth, Baby Raccoon and Cat Leopold, died. The death of the Soviet and Russian animator RTVI was reported in the press service of Soyuzmultfilm.

Farewell to Nazaruk will be held on February 1 at 14:00 in the Church of Tsarevich Dmitry at the First City Hospital in Moscow. The cause of death is not specified.

Nazaruk was involved in the creation of such cartoons as "Leopold the Cat", "Baby Raccoon", "Once a Cowboy, Two Cowboys", "Puss in Boots", "Devil with a Fluffy Tail", "Mother for a Mammoth" and others. He also took part in the creation of films-performances ("Snow Maiden", "Free Wind", "Egmont", etc.).

Vyacheslav Nazaruk was born on March 4, 1941 in Moscow. In 1965 he graduated with honors from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. Lenin, becoming a certified drawing teacher. In 1966-1967 he worked as an artist-designer in the "Rostorgreklam" of the Ministry of Trade of the RSFSR. In 1969-1970 he worked in the main editorial office of musical television programs of the Central Television of the USSR. In 1970-1989 he was a production designer of the studio "Multtelefilm" of the creative association "Ekran" of the USSR State Television and Radio.

For a series of cartoons about the cat Leopold in 1985, Nazaruk was awarded the USSR State Prize. In the early 1990s, the Disney film studio invited the artist to the United States, where he gave a course of lectures on the theory of drawing, painting and composition. There, Nazaruk held master classes on the topic "Russian folklore and fairy-tale characters in folk tales".

Nazaruk was also engaged in sculpture, book illustration and painting. The editor-in-chief of Soyuzmultfilm, Sergey Kapkov, said on Facebook (owned by Meta*) that in recent years the artist has been painting paintings dedicated to the events of ancient Russian history ("The Battle of Kulikovo", "Ice Battle", "Baptism", triptych "The Word about Igor's Regiment", etc.). According to TASS, some canvases are in the collections of the State Historical Museum, the State Museum of the History of Religion and in private collections.

NAZARUK, Vyacheslav

Born: 3/4/1941, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

Died: 1/28/2023. Moscow, Russia

 

 Vyacheslav Nazaruk’s western – art director:

Raz, kovboy, dva kovboy - 1981