Background
He was born on July 8, 1905 in Moscow.
He was born on July 8, 1905 in Moscow.
He graduated from the State college of cinema (now Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) in 1928.
From 1926, he worked in Mezhrabpom-Rus studio (first as a scene painter assistant, and then as an animator). In 1936 he moved to the newly created Soyuzmultfilm studio. Initially he worked in a genre of politic satire, and then became keen on modern fairy tales (together with Vladimir Polkovnikov).
The first cartoon that he directed himself was Arrow Flies into a Fairy Tale (Russian: Стрела улетает в сказку, Strela uletayet v skazku).
His last was Terem-Teremok (Russian: Терем-теремок, 1971).