USSR cartoon series
Nu, Pogodi! ('Well, Just You Wait!') has often been recognized Russia's answer to the classic US cartoons from the 40s, distributed in the USSR for a limited period after WWII. First created in
1969, the Nu, Pogodi! series characterized the art of toons for generations of children not solely in Russia but in several countries in Eastern Europe.
The series was created in
16 10-minute-episodes by the studio
Soyuzmultfilm between 1969 and 1986, with 4 extra episodes created in 1993 and 2005. First 18 episodes are directed by
Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, episodes 17 and 18 by
Vladimir Tarasov, and the last two are directed by
Aleksey Kotyonochkin.
