Luntik and His Friends
Russian animated television series
Luntik and His Friends (Russian: Лунтик и его друзья), or simply Luntik (Russian: Лунтик) (also known as Moonzy in its English version), is a Russian animated series for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Plot
A little young creature named Luntik was born on the Moon, but he fell down off the moon and landing to the Earth, instead of falling on the ground he landed on the water. Luntik explores the swamp with his friends: Kuzya, Mila, and Luna.
Characters
Luntik (voiced by Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya and Anna Slynko)
Kuzya (voiced by Yelena Shulman and Yuliya Zorkina)
Mila (voiced by Yuliya Rudina)
Pchelonok Tema (voiced by Svetlana Pismichenko, Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya, and Anna Slynko)
Woopsen and Poopsen (voiced by Oleg Kulikovich)
Baba Kapa (voiced by Svetlana Pismichenko, Yelena Shulman, and Yuliya Zorkina)
General Sher (voiced by Anatoly Petrov and Aleksandr Boyarsky)
Spider Shnyuk (voiced by Aleksandr Boyarsky)
Korney Korneevich (voiced by Anatoly Petrov and Mikhail Chernyak)
Peskar Ivanovich (voiced by Mikhail Chernyak)
Rak Chikibryak (voiced by Konstantin Bronzit and Mikhail Chernyak)
Totya Motya (voiced by Konstantin Bronzit, Mikhail Chernyak, and Nataliya Danilova)
Piyavka (voiced by Yelena Soloveva)
Toad Klava (voiced by Konstantin Bronzit and Nataliya Danilova)
Elina (voiced by Olga Semenova, Yuliya Rudina, and Irina Obrezkova)
Luna (voiced by Irina Obrezkova)
TV broadcast
In Russia, the show premiered on the TV channel Russia-1 and was broadcast for 7 years from 1 September 2006 until 15 May 2014. On 16 June 2014, the show moved to the channel Russia-K. It is also broadcast on Mult since 1 June 2014. It premiered during Good Night, Little Ones!.
In Ukraine the show airs on channels TET (2011–2016) (Russian original and without subtitles) and Novyi Kanal (2017–2022) (with Ukrainian dubbing).
In China the show airs on the channel CCTV Kids (2020—).
Creators
In parentheses indicate the season number.
Scenario author - Darin Schmidt (1–7), Sarra Anson (Anna Sarantsevа, 1–5), Elena Galdobina (с 3), Fedor Dmitriev (со 2), Elena Pavlikova (1, с 7), Dmitry Yakovenko (1), Marina Bogdanova (1) Marina Komarkevich (1–2,4-5), Natalia Stepanova (1–2, 5,с 8), Alina Sokolova (1–2, 5, с 8), Andrew Chibis (1), Andrei Sazonov (1–4) Kirill Glezin (1), Olga Obraztsova (1, 3–5, 7), Tatiana Gorbushina (со 2), Victor Perel'man (2), Anna Sosnora (2,с 7), Tatiana Ionova (2), Alexander Bogdanov (2–5), Dmitry and Natalia Zakharovs (2), Aleksey Anoshkin (2–3), Tatiana Klein (3), Galina Voropay (3–4), Valeria Tumanova (3), Vladimir Bouriak (3), Pavel Vasilyev (3, 6), Elena Fedyahina (4), Vera Bekeleva (4–6), Konstantin Bronzit (4), Oleg Kim (5, с 7), Leonid Magergut (5–6), Marina May (5), Richat Gilmetdinov (5–6) Alexander Yaskina (5), Yevgeny Skukovsky (5–6), Evgeniya Golubeva (5–6), Svetlana Krupenko (6), Maria Domogatskaya (Montvid) (6–7), Julia Savchenko (6) Anastasia Chistjakova (6), Vladimir Haunin (6), Vadim Smolyak (с 7), Tatiana Manetina (с 7), Svetlana Sachenko (с 7), Ekaterina Maksymenko (с 7).
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