Gorky Film Studio (Moscow)

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This is world's first film studio which is specialized in films for children.

Gorky Film Studio is a film studio in Moscow. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed at the Gorky Film Studio throughout its history and some of these were granted international awards at various film festivals.

In 1915, Mikhail Semenovich Trofimov, a merchant from Kostroma, established the Rus' film production unit with studio facilities. The Rus' studio, employing many actors from Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, specialized in film adaptations of Russian classics. It was renamed as International Workers Relief agency (Mezhrabpom-Rus') in 1924 to Mezhrabpomfilm in 1928 and Soyuzdetfilm in 1936. The first Soviet film "Aelita" was filmed at this studio in 1924. The first soviet sound film "Ticket for Life" was made here in 1931 and five years later, the first soviet color film "Grunya Kurnakova"was released from here. In 1936, the studio was transferred to Butyrskaya Street in Moscow. During World War II the film studio was evacuated to Dushanbe and merged with Tadjikfilm. After it was returned to Moscow, it was again renamed as Maxim Gorky. Between 1963 and 2004 its full name was Maxim Gorky Central Film Studio for Children and Youth.