Every June, showers of pukh, white tufts of seed from Moscow’s ubiquitous balsam poplars, swirl on summer breezes through every street, park and plaza in an aerial dance of downy fluff that ...

This version of Winnie first debuted 50 years ago, in Fyodor Khitruk’s landmark 1969 short film, Винни-Пух (Vinni-Pukh). Khitruk’s film (the first of a trilogy) was released in the same decade as the ...

But amid this mini-renaissance, there’s one rendering that—at least among Americans—has been largely forgotten: the adventures of Vinni Pukh, the peculiar Pooh of Soviet Russia. A simpler ...

Zakhoder created the Russian (Soviet) version of the famous character that became immensely popular in the USSR, especially after drawing a few cartoons of Vinni Pukh, which was his Russian name.

It seems that even in the West the Soviet Winnie (Vinni Pukh in Russian) has enjoyed better press than his American counterpart when the two are compared. A few years ago, Winkelman’s colleague ...

Pukh is the fluff that falls from female poplar trees so popular around Moscow, but boy, does it make a mess. Sam Borden / ESPN MOSCOW -- Hello from Russia! I'm in Moscow ahead of Wednesday's FIFA ...

Sam Borden is a senior writer for ESPN.com. Pukh is the fluff that falls from female poplar trees so popular around Moscow, but boy, does it make a mess. Sam Borden / ESPN Editor's Note ...