«THE TIT» (1944) director
«THE SONG OF JOY» (1946) director, script writer
«WHEN THE NEW YEAR TREES LIGHTS UP» (1950) director
«FOREST ADVENTURERS» (1951) director
«THE DESOBEDIENT KITTEN» (1953) director, script writer
«AN EXTRAORDINARY MATCH» (1955) director, script writer
«THE OLD FRIENDS» (1956) director, script writer
«GREETINGS TO OUR FRIENDS» (1957) director, script writer
«CIPOLLINO» (1961) script writer
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957). As a child, he worked as a projectionist's assistant, designed advertising posters for films and was a chorister at the opera, where he also did artistic design. He graduated from the Petrograd Art School. He worked as an illustrator in the publishing houses "Rainbow" and "Young Guard". In 1933-41 he worked as an animator, then as a director at the Leningrad film studio "Rosfilm" (later "Lenfilm"). He taught animator courses at Lenfilm. Takes part in the Great Patriotic War. From 1942 he worked at Soyuzmultfilm.