Background
Khanzhonkov was born in the small village Khanzhonkova on the banks of the Seversky Donets River in rural Russia in 1877 (today in Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine).
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Aleksandr Alekseyevich Khanzhonkov
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He produced Defence of Sevastopol, Russia"s first feature film, and Ladislas Starevich"s ground-breaking puppet animations. During the Russian Revolution, Khanzhonkov left Russia for a while, travelling to Constantinople and Vienna, but returned in 1923 and was appointed director of the new Soviet studio Proletkino. His career in the Soviet Union ended in 1926: he was forced to abdicate after a corruption scandal struck Proletkino, and never worked in cinema again.
Khanzhonkov retired and spent the rest of his life in Yalta, living on a personal pension from the state.
There he survived the Nazi occupation of Crimea in 1941–1944, and died in Yalta on September 26, 1945.
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In 1911 he founded Russia"s first cinema factory, a limited company, whose main financial backer was Ivan Ozerov, an influential banker and member of the Russian State Council.
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Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics