who became the prototype for the funny character

It’s hard to imagine childhood without the legendary Soviet cartoon “Well, wait a minute!”, where the characters Hare and Wolf became real icons of that era, embodying the bright character traits of each hero. But few people know that the image of the hooligan Wolf had a real prototype. It arose from the artists' observations of real life and their own inspiration.

Creating the Wolf was not easy for Vyacheslav Kotenochkin, the director and lead animator of the project. If the kind and agile Hare appeared almost instantly, then it took much more work to create the image of the Wolf.

The prototype of the Wolf from the cartoon “Well, wait a minute!” turned out to be a real person. It was from him that this daring image was created.

The character needed to be made both charming and…