Background
Snezhko-Blotskaya was born in Volchansk near Kharkov (modern Ukraine), before her family moved to Shatura, near Moscow.
Snezhko-Blotskaya was born in Volchansk near Kharkov (modern Ukraine), before her family moved to Shatura, near Moscow.
There she graduated from art studios of Ivan Rerberg and Ilya Mashkov.
She was a longtime collaborator with Ivan Ivanov-Vano. Snezhko-Blotskaya started her film career as designer for Soyuzkinokhronika in 1932. Since 1936 she became a constant collaborator and aidee to Ivan Ivanov-Vano, a patriarch of Russian animation.
She participated as a co-director in many of his films including famous The Humpbacked Horse and The Snow Maiden.
Her first solo feature-length film was The Enchanted Boy (1955), based on The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf. Most of Snezhko-Blotskaya"s films were fantasy based on folk tales and books by authors like Alexander Pushkin and Rudyard Kipling.