Yuri Pavlovich Shvets
Yuri Pavlovich Shvets 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
The scientific accuracy of Shvets' work was praised by the Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky when the two met in 1934.
Shvets did artwork for over fifty films, including:
- Kosmicheskiy reys
- Novii Gulliver
- Nebo Zovyot
- Вселенная
- Luna
- Марс