Doctor Aybolit

A multimedia e-book about Doctor Aybolit - (Doctor Aibolit or Doctor Powderpill or Doctor Ouch or Doctor Concocter in English), (Доктор Айболит in Russian) is a fictional character from the childrens poems Aybolit and Barmaley by Korney Chukovsky. The name may be translated as "Ouch, [it] hurts!" ★★★★★ The origins of Aybolit can be traced to Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting. Like Buratino by Aleksey Tolstoy or The Wizard of the Emerald City by Alexander Volkov, Aybolit is a loose adaptation of a foreign book by a Russian author. For example, the adaptation includes a Pushmi-pullyu, тяни-толкай (tyani-tolkay) in Russian. The prosaic adaptation always credited Lofting in the subtitle while the Aybolit poems are original works. The character became a recognizable feature of Russian culture. The poems found their following in the films Doktor Aybolit (black and white, 1938), Aybolit 66 (Mosfilm, 1967, English title Oh How It Hurts 66), and Doctor Aybolit (animated film, Kievnauchfilm, 1985)). The doctors appearance and name are used in brand names, logos, and slogans of various medical establishments, candies, etc. Aybolits antagonist, the evil pirate Barmaley, became an archetypal villain in Russian culture. Barmaley debuted in Chukovskys book Crocodile in 1916, 13 years before the first appearance of Aybolit.[citation needed] The poems Aybolit and Barmaley generated a number of Russian catch phrases such as "Nu spasibo tebe, Aybolit!" (Thanks to you, Aybolit), "Ne hodite deti v Afriku gulyat" (Children, dont go to Africa for a walk). They were also the inspiration for the Barmaley Fountain in Stalingrad. A loose English adaptation in verse was published by Richard N. Coe in 1967, entitled Doctor Concocter. It starts "Doctor Concocter sits under a tree, Hes ever so clever, he has a degree!" A living prototype of the character was Chukovskys acquaintance, Vilnian Jewish doctor Zemach Shabad (1864-1935), to whom a monument was dedicated in Vilnius on 16 May 2007. ★★★★★ ATTENTION Language Russian