Soyuzmultfilm

Soyuzmultfilm, also known in English as SMF Animation Studio and formerly Soyuzmultdetfilm, is a Russian animation studio, production and distribution company based in Moscow. It was launched on June 10, 1936, as the animated film production unit of the Soviet motion picture monopoly GUKF, and it has produced more than 1,500 cartoons using techniques that include stop motion, hand-drawn, 2D and 3D animation. It is one of the oldest and largest animation studios in Russia. Its Golden Collection, made from the early 1950s to the end of the 1980s, is regarded as classics of the medium, and its best-known works include Hedgehog in the Fog, the Cheburashka series and Well, Just You Wait. The studio also runs educational programmes for animators and script-writers, and it opened the Soyuzmultclub development center for children in 2018.