![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200/bbuqlo3NbITUHB2wIyQjhoyWle5.jpg)
Birth Day: 1931-08-23
Place of birth: Shpola, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Davyd Yanovych Cherkaskyi was a Soviet and Ukrainian animation director, screenwriter. Honored Artist of Ukraine (1995). Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (1998). People's Artist of Ukraine (2010).