We create cartoons for children and seek to win the affection of young audience from all over the world. These days the animated series «Be−Be−Bears», «Fantasy Patrol», «Heroes of Envell», «Leo and Tig», created at the Parovoz studio, are watched by children from 0 to 14 years old in each continent where there is television or Internet. More than three hundred employees are already members of Parovoz staff. We become more advanced and learn the art to be of interest to our viewers all the time.
The history of Parovoz routes
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Year 2014. The first journey

Parovoz started the first journey in September, 2014. At that moment the staff included just six people. At the request of VGTRK, the studio simultaneously elaborated the concepts of two animated cartoons, which were «Paper Tales» and «Be−Be−Bears». The first episode of «Paper Tales» was created from scratch per several months. We did it on time despite an extremely tight schedule.
Anton Smetankin
We tend to make up a team which can deal with any creative challenges. It is important for us if our associates work with pleasure, so we try to make the most convenient conditions for them. If they do what they’ve dreamt about and enjoy at least during 50% of their working hours, we think, we have achieved our goal!

Anton Smetankin
General director of the Parovoz studio

Year 2015. We found friends

The team of Parovoz studio increased up to 100 people. The work on the animated series «Be−Be−Bears» and «Paper Tales» was continued. «Be−Be−Bears» caught the interest of the viewers at once and entered competition with other popular cartoons. The work on another animated series «Magic lantern» was launched, which is an animated adaptation of world literature products. The project started the long-lasting and fruitful cooperation of the studio with Digital Television holding group.
Evgeniy Golovin
The characters of our cartoons teach young viewers to play, fantasize, study, create, value friendship, find a way out of any situation, and even fly to the Moon. After all, everything is possible for them!

Evgeniy Golovin
Creative director of the Parovoz studio

Parovoz in 2015 year
Parovoz in 2015 year Parovoz in 2015 year
The studio started forming its company culture — we took part in a charity bike race, arranged the first collective picnic, celebrated the first birthday party.

Year 2016. First awards

Parovoz continued growing. We started to work on the cartoons «Leo and Tig» and «Fantasy Patrol», which were going to be of a great success in the Russian and international markets. Meanwhile, our first animated series «Paper Tales» continued winning the hearts of viewers and captured gold in the category «Best Foreign Animated Series» at the IX International Animation Festival in Xiamen, China; the cartoon was also nominated for «TV Films» category at the International Animated Film Festival in French Annecy. «Be−Be−Bears» was not far behind either. The animated series won the first place at the X Big Festival of Animated Films in Moscow and received a prize for the best series at the XXI Open Russian Festival of Animated Films in Suzdal.
Parovoz in 2016 year
Parovoz in 2016 year Parovoz in 2016 year

Studio pets

At the same time, Parovoz welcomed new passengers. Two out of four foundlings remained in the studio, they were Leo and Chanel. Everyone’s favorites settled down in the recreation area of the studio, from time to time they became the characters of TV stories. The other two kittens left for permanent residence to the apartments of some crew members.
Parovoz in 2016 year
Parovoz in 2016 year Parovoz in 2016 year

Year 2017. Cubed heroes

There were 200 people on board of the Parovoz studio. The portfolio of the studio already included the 2D cartoon «F.A.S.T.», the animated series for the youngest ones «Woodventures», «Cutie Cubies» which was an experimental project in terms of music and artwork, and «Heroes of Envell», which is the animated series about the adventures of some pupils-gamers in a virtual world, the cartoon has an active community of loyal fans on social networks (there are more than 60,000 fans of the cartoon in its VK community). Together with the project «To children about the important» we created «About Dima» social cartoon about a child with special needs, the author and producer of it is Natalia Remish. Besides, we started working on our first animated feature film, in which we want to tell about the youth of Koshchey and his adventures on the way to immortality.
Maria Parfenova
We adore to turn everything upside down! We show familiar from childhood fairy-tale characters from a completely unexpected side. We come up with our own amazing stories. We create magic universes, where there is a place for everyone who believes in miracles and remains a kid at heart.

Maria Parfenova
Chief author of the Parovoz studio

Year 2018. Deal with Netflix

The studio team started to work on new cartoons. We began working on the educational animated series «Cathy Quest» and animation project «Moriki Doriki» at the request of L’Estoile cosmetics company, which became a part of the promotional campaign of the namesake cosmetics for children.
Cathy Quest
Moriki Doriki
Moriki Doriki
The New York Times 2018
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Netflix purchased the rights to broadcast Russian animated series «Be−Be−Bears» and «Leo and Tig». The deal became one of the most significant events in 2018. The New York Times newspaper wrote about our studio.

License success

Selling of «Fantasy Patrol» brand increased on the Russian toy market. According to NPD Group, it became one of the top ten most popular domestic licenses, overtaking the rest of the brands.
Our dolls

Year 2019. The fantasy came to every house

The «Fantasy Patrol» animation brand became the only domestic brand in the top five most popular franchises on the Russian toy market. At the end of 2019, it ranked third in terms of toys sold. Until that moment, just «Masha and the Bear» Russian brand had been in the top five franchises.

The Parovoz presented to little viewers a spin-off of the series about the young witches from Myshkin town — «Fantasy Patrol. The Chronicles», the studio also prepared to launch a new animated series «PUPPIES AND KITTENS» for younger children.

A fan meeting with the creators of the animated series «Heroes of Envell» was held at the Moscow ZIL Cultural Center. The event was streamed online.
We looked for foreign partners for co-production and strived to cooperate with foreign companies. The flagship project for the co-production became «Cosmoport», the pilot of which was represented at the MIPCOM market in Cannes. Two more projects by the studio were also shown there: «Tweetville» and «Boo the Cat and the Good Boy».

Year 2020. International routes

Parovoz started its international routes. Out cartoons continued winning hearts of the audience all over the world. Arabic TV channel Spacetoon purchased the rights to air «Be−Be−Bears» and «Leo and Tig» in 19 Middle Eastern countries. Gubbare channel purchased «Leo and Tig» for Indian television. French Canal + purchased it in autumn. Despite the pandemic, we took part in the largest international branch events, such as MIPCOM, Kidscreen, MIFA, TIFF Industry, Asia Television Forum and others.
Parovoz in 2020 year
Parovoz in 2020 year
Parovoz in 2020 year
Our presence at the license market increased as well — the toy lines, based on the animated series «Puppies and Kittens», «Cutie Cubies» were launched, another doll Alice from «Fantasy Patrol» went on retail. «Be−Be−Bears» jigsaw became the top-selling good in Russian, while «Leo and Tig» licensed product entered the Italian market.

We continued to work on the cartoons which were already known: we released the second seasons of the animated series «Heroes of Envell» and «Cathy Quest», besides the third season of «Leo and Tig». The spin off of «Leo and Tig» appeared, it is the animated series «Leo and Tig. Magic songs!», which is made in the format of music videos about nature, friendship and dreams. Our main premiere of the year was the cartoon for preschoolers «Puppies and Kittens», which was aired in spring. It describes the adventures of some little friends and acquaints young viewers with the peculiarities of parenting profession of those who have restless children.
Corporate online life was in full swing at Parovoz under the circumstances of the new world, modelled by year 2020. The staff of our company organized radio broadcasts and conducted video conferences. The teams of the studio projects listened to music and interviews with colleagues. There were composers and voice actors with whom we create cartoons among other guests of the broadcasts. At the same time, a book club was launched for the studio staff, in which we encounter the latest works in literature. There is also an animation club at Parovoz in which we can discuss the trends in the industry.
Parovoz in 2020 year
Parovoz in 2020 year
Parovoz in 2020 year
Our accounts in social networks have been actively developing as well. These days Parovoz studio is one of the few Russian animation studios that create videos specifically for TikTok. Sure, it’s Unreal, not only we assemble videos from ready episodes of our cartoons, but also we give a chance to viewers to see what their favorite characters do after acting in our series! The characters of Parovoz universe dance hip-hop, go crazy for BTS, compete in the art of mimes, go in for figure skating and even participate in alien challenges! To our surprise, people from all over the world, including Brazilians, like following the private lives of Parovoz characters! Our videos have already received 4.6 million likes!
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Year 2021. First Feature Film and New Fields of Work

In 2021, Parovoz produced 1320 minutes of animation, while the major event became the long-awaited premiere of «The Everlasting Story», the first feature film created by the studio. More than 500 specialists worked on the film for about 810 days. In Russia the cartoon was successfully released on October 28, and for the first time since 2015, a Russian animated film was on the top in the film distribution chart. «The Everlasting Story» is also included in the TOP-20 most popular films and series for 2021 on Kinopoisk, taking position 14.
The year became stellar for our animated series as well. «Day of the City», the ninth episode of the TV series «PUPPIES AND KITTENS», won «TEFI-KIDS» in the nomination «Best music for a children’s show, TV series or animated film», and the song «Fairy Tale» from «Fantasy Patrol» was announced «Main children’s song» at the National Children’s Award «Main Heroes-2021».
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«Fantasy Patrol» celebrated its five-year anniversary, the animated series expanded into a new spin-off «Music Patrol. Fantasy Songs». Meanwhile, the third season of the series «Cathy Quest» was put into production.

Not only Russian but also foreign viewers continued to meet the characters from the cartoons created at the Parovoz studio. Streaming service HBO Max launched broadcasting of «Be-be-bears», «Leo and Tig» and «Cutie Cubes» in Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America.
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The series «Leo and Tig» premiered in Israel, South Korea, and China, while the second season about the adventures of the leopard and tiger cubs from Primorsky Krai started to be shown in Italy, Malta, Monte Carlo, San Marino, Vatican and Switzerland. Moreover, in 2021, the series began to run its own Italian YouTube channel, and Mondadori publishing house released a series of books for Italian-speaking fans of the cartoon.

Meanwhile, Parovoz revealed some new fields of work, including the production of animated videos for the Blast brigadegame by the international brand My.Games and the Allords Team Arcade studio, the first internal pitching of animation projects and the launch of work on three auteur short-length cartoons, granted by the Ministry of Culture.

Year 2022. «Lost Miracle» and new animated series

In 2022, Parovoz released another feature film for the distribution — the cartoon «Lost Miracle». It describes the journey of three modern teenagers to the 14th century, St. Sergius of Radonezh, whom the kids meet on their way, and the transformation that happens to the friends due to the amazing journey into the past. After the film distribution, the television series of the same name was also released. Later, the full-length version of the captivating animated story about time travel was longlisted for the Golden Eagle Award.
«The Everlasting Story», that was released in 2021, won 10 awards from various festivals and competitions, including the main prize of the Russian national award in the field of children’s cinema and television «TEFI-Kids», «Suzdalfest» and the television award «Main Heroes-2022», which was given on the basis of the all-Russian vote of children.
«Parovoz» released five new animated series: «Champies», «PUPPIES AND KITTENS. Lovely Songs», «Lost Miracle», «Music Patrol. Fantasy Songs» and «Cat Basik», the studio also worked on three auteur short-length animation projects: «Mother of the Ship», (directed by Evgeny Golovin, 13 min.), «On the Other Side», (directed by Alexander Afonasiev, 13 min.), and «So sleepy» (directed by Igor Voloshin, 10 min.).
Four projects by the studio, «Seven Kingdoms», «Fantasy Patrol. The Chronicles», «Musya, Chuk and Stanislav» and «Tweetville» won the pitching of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and received grants for the production. Moreover, the «Fantasy Patrol» animation brand became the best licensed product of the previous year according to the RUSSIAN LICENSING AWARDS.
To be continued 😉