Knorozov was born in the village of Yuzhny near Kharkiv, at that time the capital of the newly formed Ukrainian SSR

Is he the one who started taking pictures with his cat to put in the books he wrote because the publisher kept omitting the pictures of his cat he sent them?

Please, I can only get so turned on…

And that’s his happy face.

This is one of the top image results when you google his name, and I think it’s important that you all see it.