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. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages A crocodile is any Species belonging to the family Crocodylidae (sometimes classified instead as the Subfamily Crocodylinae) Cheburashka ( Russian: Чебурашка) also known as Topple in earlier English translations is a character Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Eduard Uspenskiy (in Russian Эдуард Успенский born December 22, 1937) is a Russian Writer and author of several The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Soyuzmultfilm ( Coюзмультфильм, translated as Union Animation) is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow.
Gena works as a crocodile in a zoo and plays the garmon and likes to sing. A zoological garden, shortened to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity The garmon (гармонь is a kind of Russian button Accordion, a free-reed wind instrument. His two well-known songs are "Pust' begut neuklyushe. . . " (see below) and Goluboy vagon ("Blue Train").
Gena is best friends with Cheburashka, the title character in the series. Gena is 50 years old. He is voiced by Vasily Livanov. Vasily Borisovich Livanov OBE (Васи́лий Бори́сович Лива́нов (born 19 July, 1935) is a notable Russian and Soviet
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". Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky (Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский (born on December 12 1925) is a Russian and Ukrainian It has been popular among Russophones of various ages and generations. See also Russophone (novel A Russophone (or russophone; русскоговорящий русскоязычный russkogovoryashchy