Boris Dyozhkin was a member of ASIFA, and was named Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR in 1969.
12 Facts About Boris Dyozhkin
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Boris Dyozhkin's father was a railwayman who was later transferred to Moscow.
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Boris Dyozhkin started his career as a locksmith at a Moscow factory.
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Boris Dyozhkin found himself working along with Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Aleksandr Ivanov, Leonid Amalrik, the Brumberg sisters and other prominent animators.
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Boris Dyozhkin quickly gained the reputation of one of the most skillful animators.
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Boris Dyozhkin learned to synchronize picture and sound, to follow the rhythm, which made him one of the most wanted animators at the studio.
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Boris Dyozhkin covered the wife with his body and was hit with a shell fragment.
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Boris Dyozhkin wore an eyepatch for the rest of his life.
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Nevertheless, Boris Dyozhkin worked at Soyuzmultfilm for the next 40 years, often combining responsibilities of director, art director and animator, developing characters and pre-recorded soundtrack in order to synchronize it with movements.
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Boris Dyozhkin gained money by illustrating books and postal cards, although he continued writing screenplays and offering them to studio executives without much result.
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Boris Dyozhkin died in 1992 aged 77 and was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.
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Boris Dyozhkin was survived by the second wife Olga Gaiduk-Dyozhkina and his son from the first marriage Sergei Dyozhkin, a prolific Russian animator.