Continuation of the film "Crocodile Gena" (1969).
The only one from the animation series without Shapoklyak.
In the animation film sounds "Song of the Crocodile Gena" by Vladimir Shainskiy in the words of Aleksandr Timofeevskiy.
Since 2004, Cheburashka has become the talisman of the Russian Olympic team.
In 2003, at the Tokyo International Animation Fair, the Japanese company SP International acquired from Soyuzmultfilm the rights to distribute in Japan animations about Cheburashka until 2023.