About Yuri Pavlovich Shvets
Lived 1902 – 1972 (aged 69–70). Yuri Pavlovich Shvets was a Russian and Ukrainian painter.
Yuri Pavlovich Shvets (; born in Poltava 1902 – 1972) was a Soviet cinematic artist, famous for art and scenery especially of fantasy and science-fiction films.
As a youth, Shvets held several jobs, then studied at and graduated from both the Music and Drama Institute of Mykola Lysenko and the Arts Institute in Kiev .
The scientific accuracy of Shvets' work was praised by the Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky when the two met in 1934.
Shvets did artwork for over fifty films, including: (1935) Kosmicheskiy reys (Cosmic Journey or Space flight) (1935) Novii Gulliver (The New Gulliver) (1959) Nebo Zovyot (The Sky Calls) (1951) Вселенная (Universe) (1965) Luna (Moon) (1968) Марс (Mars)
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Who was Yuri Pavlovich Shvets?
Soviet cinematic artist
When was Yuri Pavlovich Shvets born?
Yuri Pavlovich Shvets was born in 1902 in Poltava.
When did Yuri Pavlovich Shvets die?
Yuri Pavlovich Shvets died in 1972.
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Yuri Pavlovich Shvets was a painter.
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Yuri Pavlovich Shvets was Russian and Ukrainian.
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