Shapoklyak
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Bookcover of Eduard Uspensky's book Crocodile Gena and his friends. Shapoklyak is the old lady with the telescope (bottom left)
Shapoklyak (Russian: старуха Шапокляк, Staruha Shapoklyak - Old Lady Shapoklyak) was a popular villain from a story about Cheburashka written by Russian writer Eduard Uspensky. Shapoklyak also appeared in the animated film series by Soyuzmultfilm studio.
She appears as an old, wrinkled woman, wearing an outdated hat and carrying a purse, in which she carries her pet rat Lariska. In episode Чебурашка идёт в школу (Cheburashka goes to school) she admits, that has not received secondary education and sends to school together with Cheburashka. Her name is the Russian word for the hat she wears — borrowed from the French word chapeau claque which sounds funny for the Russian ear.
