David Cherkassky (1931 – 30 October, 2018) was Soviet and Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He made several animation pictures for the Kievnauchfilm. David Cherkassky has graduated Kiev Construction Engineering Institute. He noted that Soviet parents anticipated that the Soviet Union will participate in war and so registered their children later to delay them to be drafted to army. Cherkassky in interview acknowledged that he was born in 1931. During the World War II he and his mother were evacuated to a village near the Russian city of Chkalov (today Orenburg). David Cherkassky was a member of the Ukrainian gymnast team. Since his 50 and until he was 80, Cherkassky enjoyed alpine skiing. After the death of Stalin, Cherkassky found out that his family origin is a small city of Shpola in Central Ukraine and he has some extensive family in the United States. His father was a director of typography after the revolution and later he served as an assistant to People's Commissar of Justice.

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