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- Birth nameAleksandr Lukich Ptushko
- Aleksandr Ptushko was born on April 19, 1900 in Lugansk, Lugansk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Luhansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for The Stone Flower (1946), Sadko (1953) and Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972). He died on March 6, 1973 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- He has been referred to as the "Walt Disney of the Soviet Union."
- He was a master of stop-motion film-making.
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