Misha (mascot)
Mischa ( Russian Миша ) or Mishka ( Russian Мишка ) is the name of the mascot of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . It depicts a young bear, (the Russian bear , the national animal of Russia) and was the first Olympic mascot to achieve great fame.
Mischa played a central role at the opening and closing ceremonies and was depicted on numerous souvenirs; there was even a TV cartoon .
Emergence
The organizing committee for the Olympic Games in Moscow announced a competition for the best illustration of a bear in 1977, which the cartoonist and children's book illustrator Viktor Chichikov won. He designed a smiling anthropomorphic bear cub with a belt in blue, black, yellow, green, and red - the colors of the Olympic rings - and a gold belt buckle shaped like the five Olympic rings. Mischa was confirmed as the official mascot of the Games on December 19, 1977.
Surname
The name Mischa is a short form of the Russian name Michail and Mischka the belittling of Misha. Misha is the name for a bear in general , also in the vernacular of Russian . The official full name of Misha is "Mikhail Potapych Toptygin".
production
The plush bear was made in the “faux fur factory” in the Ukrainian city of Shovti Vody .
Others
On June 15, 1978, the mascot Misha was on board the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 29 and, as a result, on the Salyut 6 space station .
Web links
- Moscow 1980 Mascot: Misha on the official website of the International Olympic Committee (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Voswinkel, Das Tier im Muttersöhnchen , in: Die Zeit , No. 40/2007 of September 28, 2007, accessed on February 18, 2013
- ↑ Ukraine Ultimate Travel Guide: Zhovti Vody city (English)