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He studied acting and film direction under Sergei Gerasimov at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and worked at the Armenfilm for several years.
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Agasi Babayan
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He received the title of Merited Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1974. In 1952 he moved to work at the Mosnauchfilm studio (a Moscow studio that produced educational movies and television shows). He is best known for making the original 1961 film version of Dersu Uzala (later more famously remade by Akira Kurosawa), as well as a series of four movies about the lynx Kunak based on the stories by Vitaly Bianki, shot in the taiga: The Path Towards Uninterested Love (1971), The Lynx Follows the Path (1982), The Lynx Returns (1986) and The Lynx Follows the Trail (1994).
He also produced a number of documentaries on nature, history and music
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