Yuri Pavlovich Shvets

Yuri Pavlovich Shvets (Russian: Юрий Павлович Швец; born in Poltava 1902 – 1972) 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^[1] .^[2]

The scientific accuracy of Shvets' work was praised by the Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky when the two met in 1934.^[1]

Shvets did artwork for over fifty films,^[1] including:

• (1935) Kosmicheskiy reys (Cosmic Journey or Space flight)
• (1935) Novii Gulliver (The New Gulliver)
• (1959) Nebo Zovyot (The Sky Calls)
• (1951) Вселенная (Universe)
• (1965) Luna (Moon)
• (1968) Марс (Mars)