Nikolay Prilutskiy

Nikolai Stepanovich Prilutskiy (Russian: Николай Степанович Прилуцкий (January 26, 1909, Moscow – July 25, 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian sound operator, one of the first operators who created the sound for Soviet cartoons at the beginning of the Soviet animation. Prilutskiy was one of the foremost Soviet directors of audiography and one of the founders of Soviet animation art. He was the director of audiography at the famous classics of Soviet animation, such as the prize-winning fairy tales The Snow Maiden, The Enchanted Boy, The Twelve Months and the full-length animation The Snow Queen (1957), and the modern satirical tale The Key (1961). Also Nikolai Prilutskiy made the sound for more than one hundred Russian cartoons.