page_title: Dunno
section_title: Flower Town Dwellers
hierarchical_section_title: Dunno / Characters / Flower Town Dwellers
caption_attribution_description: English: A Russia stamp, Русский: Марка России. Герой трилогии писателя Н.Н.Носова "Приключение незнайки и его друзей" (1954), "Незнайка в солнечном городе" (1958), "Незнайка на Луне" (1964-1965). (1992, Художник: Б.Илюхин, №17).
context_page_description: Dunno, or Know-Nothing or Ignoramus is a character created by Soviet children's writer Nikolay Nosov. The idea of the character comes from the books of Palmer Cox.
  Dunno, recognized by his bright blue hat, canary-yellow trousers, orange shirt, and green tie, is the title character of Nosov's world-famous trilogy, The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends, Dunno in Sun City, and Dunno on the Moon. There have been several movie adaptations of the books.
context_section_description: Named for its abundance of flowers, all streets are named after flowers as well. The Flower City is located by the Cucumber River, on the shore of which many cucumbers grow. Here boy-shorties and girl-shorties live together, but often have trouble getting along.
  Dunno (Незнайка, from Russian "не знаю", "I don't know") - the title character of the trilogy and the most infamous personality in Flower City. 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. 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. He also resembles Khlestakov of Nikolai Gogol.
  Gunky (Гунька) - a boy-shorty, Dunno's best friend
  Doono (Знайка, from "знаю", "I know") - a boy-shorty scientist, the smartest of the boy-shorties, often adopts the leadership role
  Bendum (Винтик, or "little bolt") and Twistum (Шпунтик, from "little peg") - boy-shorty mechanics
  Trills (Гусля, from "гусли", or "gusli") - a boy-shorty musician
  Blobs (Тюбик, or "tube") - a boy-shorty painter
  Pee-Wee (Кнопочка, or "little button") - a girl-shorty who becomes best friends with Dunno
  Daisy (Ромашка, or "camomile") - a girl-shorty
  Swifty (Торопыжка, from "торопиться", or "to hurry") - a boy-shorty who is always in a hurry
  Scatterbrain (Растеряйка, from "растерять", or "to lose") - a boy-shorty who always loses and forgets things
  Dr. Pillman (Доктор Пилюлькин, from "пилюля", or "pill") - a boy-shorty physician
  Roly-Poly (Пончик, or "doughnut") - a very chubby boy-shorty who likes to eat sweets
  Treacly-Sweeter (Сиропчик, or "little syrup") - a very chubby boy-shorty who likes to drink carbonated water with syrup
  Shot (Пулька, from "пуля", "bullet") - a boy-shorty hunter
  Dot (Булька, from "бульдог", "бультерьер", or "bulldog", "bull terrier") - Shot's dog
  Posey (Цветик, or "bloomer") - a boy-shorty poet
  Pachkulya Pyostrenky (Пачкуля Пёстренький, or "dirty and garishly spotted") - a boy-shorty who is always dirty (does not like to clean himself and has a unique ability to get dirty very quickly) and never surprised at anything
  Grumps (Ворчун, from "ворчать", "to grumble") - a boy-shorty who always grumbles and complains
  Mums (Молчун, from "молчать", "to be silent") - a boy-shorty who is always quiet
  Tinkle (Мушка, from "муха", or "fly" [insect]) - a girl-shorty
  Glass-Eye (Стекляшкин, from "стекляшка", or "piece of glass") - a boy-shorty astronomer
  Kapelka (Капелька, or "little drop") - a girl-shorty who cries when it rains
caption: Russian stamp with the image of Dunno (1992)
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