Agniya Barto

Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character

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

The Foundling

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...

A True Comrade

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

An Elephant and a Rope

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...

Two Stories

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.

Magic Shovel

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

The Bullfinch

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.

From Seven to Twelve

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.