Gena playing his garmon

Crocodile Gena (Russian: Крокодил Гена, Krokodil Gena) is a fictional friendly crocodile in the series of Cheburashka books by Russian writer Eduard Uspensky and also in the animated films based on the series by Soyuzmultfilm studio. Image File history File links Krokodil_gena. ... Image File history File links Krokodil_gena. ... For other uses, see Crocodile (disambiguation). ... Cheburashka, the animated film character Gena singing the birthday song in Cheburashka (1971) Cheburashka (Russian: Чебурашка  ) is a character in childrens literature, from a 1965 story by the Russian writer Eduard Uspensky. ... Eduard Uspensky Eduard Uspensky (in Russian Эдуард Успенский, b. ... The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ... Winnie-the-Pooh by Soyuzmultfilm The Studio Soyuzmultfilm () is the most important Soviet animation film studio, founded in 1935 under the name of Soyuzdetmultfilm. ...

Gena works as a crocodile in a zoo and plays the garmon and likes to sing. His two well-known songs are "Poost begoot neooklyooshe..." (see below) and Goluboy vagon ("Blue rail car"). Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo A zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. ... Garmon The word garmon (Russian: гармонь) literally means accordion, in Russian although it usually usually refers to a specific class of Russian accordions that have two rows of buttons on the right side, which play the notes of a diatonic scale, and at least...

Gena is best friends with Cheburashka, the title character in the series. Gena is 50 years old. He is voiced by Vasily Livanov. The photograph of Livanov as Sherlock Holmes is said to be the largest of those gracing the walls of the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Baker Street. ...

One rainy day, which happens to be his birthday, Gena sings a song "Пусть бегут неуклюже пешеходы по лужам... (Let the pedestrians run clumsily over the puddles", which contains the line: "unfortunately, a birthday happens only once a year". This song by Vladimir Shainsky had since become known as the "Crocodile Gena's Song". It has been popular among Russophones of various ages and generations. Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский) (born on December 12, 1925) is a Russian composer. ... Look up Russophone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...