Agniya Barto

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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