Birth Date: 23 Aug 1931
Place of Birth: Shpola, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Personal Name: Davyd Cherkaskyi
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).