Framed poster of Vintage 1968 Soviet Cheburashka & Crocodile Gena Theatrical Poster

A museum-quality framed reproduction of a rare and charming 1968 Soviet theatrical poster — the original playbill for the Leningrad Puppet-Marionette Theatre’s production of Cheburashka (Чебурашка), a children’s fairy tale by Eduard Uspensky and R. Kachanov, directed by Honored Artist of the RSFSR V. Lopukhin. Presented in your choice of frame colour, ready to hang.

This poster captures a precise and consequential moment in Soviet cultural history. When puppet sculptor Margarita Skripova-Yasinskaya crafted the stage puppet for this 1968 production, she made the bold artistic decision to give Cheburashka his now-iconic oversized, round ears — a radical departure from Uspensky’s original 1966 text description. The following year, production designer Leonid Shvartsman adapted the same visual identity for the legendary 1969 Soyuzmultfilm animated film, permanently cementing Cheburashka’s look in global pop culture. The print exhibits classic late-1960s Soviet graphic design: bold block typography with a vibrant, playful palette — Crocodile Gena in his iconic green scales and checkered vest, a stylized girl puppet with a pink bow, and the soft orange-textured prototype Cheburashka holding a balloon string against a whimsical cityscape silhouette.

Publication Details
Story: Cheburashka — fairy tale by E. Uspensky & R. Kachanov
Director: V. Lopukhin, Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Puppet Sculptor: Margarita Skripova-Yasinskaya
Year: 1968
Theatre: Leningrad Puppet-Marionette Theatre, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), USSR
Original medium: Offset lithograph on paper
Style: Soviet Late-1960s / Theatrical Graphic Design

Make a statement in any room with this framed poster, printed on thick matte paper. The frame made from wood from renewable forests adds an extra touch of class.

• Original poster size: 58 × 87 cm (23″ × 34″)
• Frame size: 24 × 36 in (61 × 91 cm) — the closest standard size to the original
• Frame colour: Black / Red Oak / White (select above)
• Frame depth: 0.75″ (1.9 cm) · Ayous wood from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm) · 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia

How to hang: place the mounting hook at the centre-top of the frame.