![]() ![]() Zhulio (Жулио, an amalgamated word from жулик - a swindler, cheater, and the Portuguese name Julio) - a firearms-store owner, Miga's friend.Miga (Мига, from «миг» - a brief instant, or «мигать» - «to blink») - a cheater who meets Dunno in jail and with Zhulio's help talks him into founding a «Giant Plants Company».Kozlik (Козлик - a little goat) - a smart unemployed Moon dweller who quickly becomes Dunno's friend after they meet in jail.Kubik (Кубик, "block, brick, little cube") - a boy-shorty architect.Klyopka (Клёпка - "rivet") - a boy-shorty engineer.Professor Starman (Профессор Звёздочкин) - full member of the Academy of Astronomical Sciences, scientific opponent of Doono, then his friend and colleague.Fuchsia (Фуксия) and Selyodochka (Селёдочка, "small herring") - girl-shorty scientists.Posey (Цветик, or "bloomer") - a boy-shorty poet.Blobs (Тюбик, or "tube") - a boy-shorty painter.Bendum (Винтик, or "little bolt") and Twistum (Шпунтик, from "little peg") - boy-shorty mechanics.Roly-Poly (Пончик, or "doughnut") - a very chubby boy-shorty who likes to eat sweets.Doono (Знайка, from "знаю", "I know") - a boy-shorty scientist, the smartest of the boy-shorties, often adopts the leadership role. ![]() He is highly reminiscent of the popular Russian folk hero Ivan the Fool, a flawed young man who always manages to come out on top. As an anti-hero, this boy-shorty is both ignorant, lazy, rude, and conceited and at the same time curious, kind, enterprising, and unbelievably lucky. Dunno (Незнайка, from Russian "не знаю", "I don't know") - the title character of the trilogy and the most infamous personality in Flower City. ![]()
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