Aleksandr Ptushko

Also known as A. Ptushko, Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko, Little Big PushCo

Soviet animation and fantasy film director (1900-1973)

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Aleksandr Ptushko was a male film director, screenwriter, camera operator, and animator born in Luhansk in 1900. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with Russian as his native language. His professional career spanned from 1927 to 1972. He was employed by the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and was a member of the Association of Filmmakers of the USSR.

Ptushko received the Stalin Prize, People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and Order of the Badge of Honour. He died in Moscow on March 6, 1973, and is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. He was educated at Plekhanov Russian Economic University.

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Lugansk, Lugansk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Luhansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine]

Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (Russian: Александр Лукич Птушко, 19 April [O.S. 6 April] 1900 – 6 March 1973) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Ptushko is frequently (and somewhat misleadingly) referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney," because of his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would…