Aleksandr Kurlyandskiy

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Follows the comical adventures of a mischievous yet artistic wolf [Volk], trying to catch a hare [Zayats]. The series has additional characters that usually either help the hare or interfere with the wolf's plans

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An omnibus of comical shorts.

Pursuing Zayats Volk discovers Soviet showbiz.

Chasing Zayats on a construction site Volk discovers a new angle in their relationship.

The main characters of the animated film are three little frogs, who suddenly lost their home due to drainage of the swamp and are now forced to look for a new reservoir for life. Together they dream of finding a sea in which they can settle. But the search for a new home is not an easy task. It's very difficult for little frogs in the modern world, where there are many cars and an incredible amount of dangers around.

Volk and Zayats participate in the 1980 Olympic Games.

Volk and Zayats hang out at a ski resort, and celebrate the New Year.

As Volk is walking through the city he sees Zayats on a balcony of an apartment block watering the plants. Imagining him as as a tasty meal Volk tries to climb up the balcony. A chase ensures, the first of many.

The 90s only keep getting worse for Volk and Zayats.

The second issue of the animated film, with the participation of characters already familiar to the children - three funny froglings, who this time go to secondary school and meet with their dried relatives, who were put in alcohol and face new adventures.

Volk tries to make amends with Zayats but it doesn't go as planned. Some other time he follows Zayats to a science fair, but finds there something he won't be able to handle.

Animated series about the adventures of a parrot Kesha, "the hero of our time." The action is concentrated in the city and its surroundings. Kesh lives in the apartment of Vova, a schoolchild, but because of his hot-tempered, arrogant character, he periodically runs away and gets into trouble, eventually returning to Vovka with a confession. The humor of the series is based on the eccentric behavior of Keshi, on recognizable realities, as well as on the multiple quotations used by the parrot.

Zayats goes to a museum where Volk already waits for him, but not to learn history together.

When Misha the Bear was chosen as the mascot for the Olympic Games 1980, Baba-yaga (the witch) sets out to fight and become the mascot herself.

Volk is spying on Zayats with a spyglass "hidden" in a birdhouse..

In which Volk and Zayats go skydiving!

Hare is working at a construction site with a welding machine, from which sparks fly off and hit the Wolf. Wolf notices Hare and starts a chase, but the Hare defends himself with the welding machine. At the end of the issue Wolf crashes into an advertisement for a polytechnic technical school and expresses his desire to learn to operate welding machines there, but it turns out that this technical school accepts only athletes. The episode focuses on the problem that some technical schools and universities at that time, accepted students not based on knowledge, but by athletic merit, so that the institution could show sports results.

Volk and Zayats try themselves out at sports to varying results.