Olga Khodataeva

Olga Petrovna Khodataeva - Soviet animation director, screenwriter, animated film artist. The sister of the Soviet multiplier N. P. Khodatayev (1892-1979). After graduating from the school of painting, sculpture and architecture in Moscow in 1918, she worked as a graphic designer and graphic artist. In 1924 she came to the animation, worked in a team of multimasters at the State Customs Committee under the guidance of her brother, later in the factories Mezhrabpom-Rus, Sovkino (Soyuzkino, Mosfilm). From 1927 to 1932 she worked in the creative team of sisters Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg. She participated as a co-author of the animated design of the plays “About Dziuba” and “The Negro and the Monkey” in the theater directed by N.I. Sats (now the Moscow State Academic Children's Music Theater named after N.I.Sats). In the years 1936-1960 - director of the film studio "Soyuzmultfilm". She was a member of the artistic council of Soyuzmultfilm. For many years she collaborated with the artist and director P. N. Nosov. Since 1954 she worked together with L.V. Aristov.