Shapoklyak

Old Lady Shapoklyak () is a villain from stories about Cheburashka written by Russian writer Eduard Uspensky. She appeared in a number of tales by Uspensky and animated films by Uspensky's stories.

thumb|left|Shapoklyak in Holon She is an old woman, wearing an outdated hat and carrying a purse, in which she carries her pet rat Lariska. Her name is the word for the hat she wears, borrowed from the French chapeau claque, an obsolete spring-loaded top hat, which sounds funny to the Russian ear. In the film Cheburashka Goes to School (1983) she admits that she has not received secondary education and is sent to school together with Cheburashka.