Agniya Barto

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

A little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She'll be back home soon but she will change the life of at least one man forever...

All the girls of one of the Moscow houses can tirelessly jump over a skipping rope. But little Lida did: can't learn to jump. Once in a dream a wise elephant gives her a piece of advice: to learn how to jump, you must first do a good deed...

At the heart of the movie - true stories about separations and meetings, about search of relatives, the proceeding many years after war.

He gave us an unforgettable and unique childhood. What was the great Russian storyteller really like? A documentary film about Eduard Uspensky.

A Soviet violinist, during a concert tour in Japan, meets a little milk carrier named Taro. Upon returning home, the violinist tells Moscow schoolchildren about the lonely little Japanese boy who dreams of corresponding with Soviet kids. And 10,000 pioneers offered Taro their friendship...

Once a boy in a pet store saw a red-breasted bullfinch and asked his mother to buy him this bird. But the mother refused to buy, citing the boy's bad behavior and the coat he had ruined. He was very upset, but then, after thinking a little, he decided to correct his behavior and stopped fighting. Mom was pleasantly surprised by such drastic changes in her son's behavior and bought him a bullfinch.

Alyosha Ptitsyn, a third-grader decides that he wants to improve his personality and immediately starts to act.

Based on the poems of A. Barto about the lazy Vasya, who did not want to take part in public life.

In the first episode, Petya builds a homemade camera to secretly film a schoolyard brawl but is delighted when the fighting boys stage a fake reconciliation for his lens and then decide to form their own amateur film studio. In the second, football fans Borya and Alik adopt a stray black kitten, whose presence brings victory to their favorite team. In the third, Tolik and Dima, caught in the rain in their new silk parade uniforms, take refuge in a stairwell, proving that dedication sometimes means making the best of a soggy situation.

Children's books, which were considered a luxury in many Soviet families, were sent in large amounts to kindergartens and libraries. The former Rumyantsev Library (now the Russian State Library) had a children's reading room, where children would often choose a book based on the pictures on the card index. Which of the 1960s' writers were especially popular among them?

The newsreel "Pioneerism" is dedicated to the theme of youth and childhood.

On the upbringing of a sense of camaraderie in Soviet schoolchildren.

Two well-known children's stories made into animation. The duck who fell asleep while driving the train and the girl who couldn't stop whining.

A brief overview of efforts being made across the Soviet Union to deliver lost and inaccurately addressed letters to their recipients, with a particular focus on the work of children's author Agniya Barto.