Yuri Pavlovich Shvets

Yuri Pavlovich Shvets (Russian: Юрий Павлович Швец; 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^[1] .^[2]

The scientific accuracy of Shvets' work was praised by the Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky when the two met in 1934.^[1]

Shvets did artwork for over fifty films,^[1] 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)

^ ^a ^b ^c И. Ломакина (1975):Валерий Кленов НА ПОДХОДАХ К ЖАНРУ at Fandom.ru, reproduced from Техника-молодежи.- ╧ 4.- С. 40-42.
^ В. Кленов (1981): ЗОЛОТЫЕ ЯБЛОКИ И ПРОСПЕКТ ГАГАРИНА НА ЛУНЕ У истоков космической живописи at Fandom.ru, reproduced from Техника-молодежи.- ╧ 5.- С. 10-11, 21.

[Lomakin-1] И. Ломакина (1975):Валерий Кленов НА ПОДХОДАХ К ЖАНРУ at Fandom.ru, reproduced from Техника-молодежи.- ╧ 4.- С. 40-42.

[Klenov-2] В. Кленов (1981): ЗОЛОТЫЕ ЯБЛОКИ И ПРОСПЕКТ ГАГАРИНА НА ЛУНЕ У истоков космической живописи at Fandom.ru, reproduced from Техника-молодежи.- ╧ 5.- С. 10-11, 21.

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