Yeralash

Yeralash () is a Soviet and Russian children's comedy television show and magazine. Yeralash also runs an actor studio and the "Yeralash Island" camp. The word yeralash means "mixed, mishmash" or "jumble" and is taken from the Turkic languages.

== History == In 1974, Directors Alla Surikova, Alexander Khmelik and Boris Grachevsky sent a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union with a proposal to create a comedy newsreel “Fitilek” (Little Wick) for children (similar to the name of another newsreel Fitil, which was aimed for adult audience). In the process of development, the name "Fitilek" was rejected. The most widespread story about how the new name was chosen is that a contest was announced among the audience to rename the film magazine, and the name "Yeralash" was taken from a letter from a certain schoolgirl. Subsequently, this letter was said to have been lost. However, in 2013, Surikova and Grachevsky finally told that the name was coined by Khmelik 's daughter. Additionally, the name "Yeralash" itself is a consonant away from the surname of Philip Ermash, the chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) from 1972 to 1986, though the creators maintain that this was not intentional.