Kayukov Leonid Leontyevich

Soviet and Russian film director, production designer, artist and screenwriter, book illustrator. In 1970 he graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, in 1972 - courses of cartoonists of the Crocodile magazine. In 1960-1999, he worked at the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio, first as an animator, and since 1972, as a director. He taught animation in Alma-Ata, Chisinau, St. Petersburg, Dresden and Moscow. In the mid-1990s, he was deputy director of production at Soyuzmultfilm, managed the Bear Rescue Service project, and until 1996 was a member of the Board of the Soyuzmultfilm Cinema Studio. Since 2000 - director of the Magic Lantern studio.