Editing Cheburashka (section)

=== Drutten och Jena ===
[[File:Druttenochgena.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from "Drutten och Jena"]]
In the 1970s a number of children's television shows, radio shows, records and magazines were produced in [[Sweden]] with the characters Drutten and crocodile Jena (Gena). These two characters were based on a couple of Cheburashka and Gena dolls bought on a trip to the Soviet Union, so they were visually identical to Cheburashka and Gena. "Drutten" means "one who has tumbled down", as one meaning of the Swedish colloquial verb "drutta" is "to fall or tumble down".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drutta | title=Drutta | date=19 August 2023 }}</ref>

In the TV series  {{ill|Drutten och Jena|lt = ''Drutten och Jena''|sv|Drutten och Gena#Svensk TV-serie (1973–1988)}}, also ''Drutten och Krokodilen'', the two characters sang and told different stories from those in the USSR, lived on a bookshelf rather than in a city and are [[hand puppet]]s operated in [[live action]] rather than stop motion. Only occasionally Swedish public service TV would broadcast a segment of the Russian original, dubbed in Swedish. While many Swedes may visually recognize Cheburashka, they will generally not associate these characters with the ones Russian children know. The first episode premiered in 1973. Around 600 to 700 episodes were shown in Sweden in total, in a series of many years<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/drutten-och-jena/4050-11530/|title=Drutten och Jena (Volume)|website=Comic Vine|language=en|accessdate=2023-07-07}}</ref> and the last episode was screened as a special in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/puls/0003/10/drutt.html|title=Aftonbladet puls: Vart tog ni vägen – Drutten och Jena?|website=wwwc.aftonbladet.se|accessdate=2023-07-07}}</ref> The animated series was broadcast on [[Sveriges Television]].{{fact|date=January 2024}}