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Old Lady Shapoklyak Russian: Старуха Шапокляк
Shapoklyak in Ramenskoye, Moscow Oblast.
Created by	Eduard Uspensky
In-universe information
Species	Human
Gender	Female

Old Lady Shapoklyak (Russian: Шапокляк, romanized: Shapoklyak) is a villain from stories about Cheburashka written by Russian writer Eduard Uspensky. She appeared in a number of tales by Uspensky and animated films by Uspensky's stories.

Shapoklyak in Holon

She is an old woman, wearing an outdated hat and carrying a purse, in which she carries her pet rat Lariska. Her name is the word for the hat she wears, borrowed from the French chapeau claque, an obsolete spring-loaded top hat, which sounds funny to the Russian ear. In the film Cheburashka Goes to School (1983) she admits that she has not received secondary education and is sent to school together with Cheburashka.

She is notorious for her mischiefs and pranks on the city dwellers. The refrain of her theme song contains her motto, "One won't ever get famous for good deeds" Russian: Хорошими делами прославиться нельзя. However near the end of some stories she turns around and helps the protagonists, only to return to pranks with the next story.

In print

Bookcover of Eduard Uspensky's book Crocodile Gena and His Friends. Shapoklyak is the old lady with the telescope (bottom left).

• 1966: Uspensky, ''Gena the Crocodile and His Friends
• 1970: Uspensky, Kachanov, «Чебурашка и его друзья» (play)
• 1974: Uspensky, Kachanov, «Отпуск крокодила Гены» (play)
• 1974: Uspensky, «Крокодил Гена и грабители»
• 1992: Uspensky and Inna Agron (Инна Е. Агрон), Gena The Crocodile's Business
• 1998: Uspensky, «Крокодил Гена — лейтенант милиции»
• 1998: Uspensky, «Чебурашка уходит в люди»
• 2001: Uspensky, «Похищение Чебурашки»
• 2001: Uspensky, «Новый год с Чебурашкой»
• 2017: Uspensky, «Чебурашка едет в Сочи»

Animation

• Gena the Crocodile
• Shapoklyak
• Cheburashka Goes to School
• Cheburashka (2010 Japanese animation)
• Cheburashka (2023 Russian remake of the Japanese animation)
• Cheburashka (2023 film)

External links

• Shapoklyak at IMDb
• Shapoklyak at Animator.ru