About Eduard Uspensky:
Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky is a Russian writer and author of several children's books. Among his most beloved characters are a serious but adventurous boy known, for his serious disposition, by the sardonic nickname of Uncle Fyodor (???? ?????), from Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat; and the anthropomorphic duo of Crocodile Gena (???????? ????) and Cheburashka (?????????), featured in a children's novel by Uspensky about the adventures of the two animal friends.