Трое из Простоквашино

In the summer of 1967 Eduard Uspensky worked as a librarian in a camp. It was there that he began to write a story about the village of Prostokvashino and its motley inhabitants.

At the request of the Director Vladimir Popov working to create on-screen images was divided between the art Directors. Levon Khachatryan worked on images of postman Pechkin, Mom and Dad uncle Theodore and the uncle Fedor. Nicholas Erykalov worked on images of animals: cat Matroskin, dog, Ball, cow Murka and her calf of Gavroche. The image of Galchenko long worked, so everyone who came to the room of artists at "Soyuzmultfilm", was asked to draw Valconca. It even had a hand Leonid Shvartsman, Creator of the Cheburashka.

Mom uncle Theodore Levon Khachatryan sketched with his wife. "Small stature, short hair, glasses. Vladimir Popov has made the amendments. Points. On my sketch, they were round, which is my wife, but the priests believed that it is better square".

Soviet parents Uncle Fedor in 1978 is very similar to Swedish parents in 1968 from the cartoon "the Kid and Carlson" (1968).

The only type, in which the team did not come to a decision, is uncle Theodore. Therefore, its screen image is strongest varies from series to series.

The episode where the postman Pechkin knocking at the door, and the Galchonok answers "Who's there?" very similar to an episode in American educational animated series "the Electric company" (1971), where the plumber knocks on the door and he meets a parrot.

The postman Pechkin looks very similar to citizen Kurochkin cartoon of Vladimir Popov "the adventures of Vasya Kurolesov" (1981). Moreover, voiced both characters were one and the same voice — the voice actor of Boris Novikov.

Writer Eduard Uspensky wanted to give the cat a name Taraskin — in honor of his friend, employee newsreel "Wick" Anatoly Taraskina, but he "didn't want to be some sort of book cat." However, later regretted it and confessed to the writer: "What a fool I was! The name I regretted to give!"