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Gennady Mikhailovich Sokolsky (; 1 December 1937 — 27 December 2014) was a Soviet and Russian artist, animation director, animator, art director and screenwriter at Soyuzmultfilm. Sokolsky took part in over 170 projects, including the Happy Merry-Go-Round animated series which he co-created with several friends. Member of ASIFA. Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History. Volume II. — Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 288-289 Sergei Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 601-602
In 1969 he along with several friends produced the children's "newsreel" anthology Happy Merry-Go-Round which quickly turned into a launching pad for young directors and a polygon for experimental animation. Sokolsky himself directed a Well, Just You Wait! comedy short about an anthropomorphism wolf who tried to catch a small hare. It became so successful that same year it was turned into a popular series of its own, with a bigger budget and a new, more experienced director Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin attached. Natalia Vendzher (2006). Our Animation. Gennady Sokolsky. — Moscow: Interros, p. 176
Originally all segments were developed collectively. Sokolsky worked both as a director, art director and animator on various segments. After the team left the project, it turned into a more traditional animated series. Sergei Asenin (2012). The World of Animation. — Moscow: Print-on-Demand, pp. 76-77 They still continued working together on each other's cartoons. In 1974 Sokolsky, Anatoly Petrov and Valery Ugarov tried to start another anthology series aimed at schoolchildren, but it was rejected by Goskino and the pilot was reedited into a 10-minute short Prodelkin at School. Unknown animation shown at the State Film Fund at the Animatograph web magazine, 31 January 2009 (in Russian) In 1993 Sokolsky, Petrov, Galina Barinova and Leonid Nosyrev united for the last time to work on Jester Balakirev, a film based on the national folklore about Ivan Balakirev and Peter the Great. Balakirev the Buffoon at Animator.ru
As a director Sokolsky became famous for his comedy and environmental films. Among them was Silver Hoof (1977) based on Pavel Bazhov's fairy tale; Little Mouse Pik (1978), an adaptation of Vitaly Bianki's short story about a little mouse lost in the woods; Ivashka from the Pioneers Palace (1981), a comedy fairy tale written by Eduard Uspensky; and The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin (1986-1987) which Sokolsky co-directed with Kenji Yoshida. The latter became the first joined animated project by the USSR and Japan.
Sokolsky also directed a number of Fitil episodes, as well as animated sequences to several movies such as Sergei Gerasimov's The Love of Mankind (1972) and Alexander Mitta's How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976). An acclaimed composer Vladimir Martynov also regularly collaborated with the original Happy Merry-Go-Round team, introducing progressive electronic music to accompany animation. He wrote soundtracks to Sokolsky's Prodelkin at School, Silver Hoof and Little Mouse Pik. Filmography at IMDb
During the 1990s Sokolsky switched to book illustration, mostly children's literature. From 1998 to 1999 he taught animation in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Gennady Sokolsky died on 27 December 2014 after a long illness. Legendary Russian Animator Sokolsky Dies At 78 by Radio "Liberty", 27 December 2014 He was buried at the Pyatnitskoye Cemetery. He was survived by his wife Tatiana Georgievna Sokolskaya (born 1946), an art director and regular collaborator on her husband's films.
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