The Russian DVD release of the restored footage, distributed by "Krupnyy Plan" and "Lizard", separates the animation into the original five parts.

[1] An English-language version made jointly by Soyuzmultfilm (Russia) and Cyrillic Films (U.S.) was completed in 1996 and released direct-to-video on April 28, 1998 under the name Adventures of Mowgli.

[3] It proves an interesting contrast to the Disney Jungle Book, being more faithful to the epic and primal content of Kipling's original work.

Dying in the finale of the fourth episode, Akela is the embodiment of the archetype of a warrior who worthily meets death in battle and leaves for the fields of happy hunting ...

In other words, the authors told us that childhood ends when you find out that death exists, and youth — when a person close to you dies.

Whilst doing so, he accidentally burns his right forepaw, forcing a young child, Mowgli, to wander into a wolf cave in the jungle.

At that point, Shere Khan (accompanied by his servant Tabaqui) appears at the entrance and, unable to pass through the cave's aperture with his massive body, demands that the wolves give him his prey, but the wolf mother, Raksha refuses and drives him away.

The Bandar-logs in the trees watch Mowgli free an Asian elephant calf from a pit trap set by hunters and decide that he is just like them but without a tail and that he could be useful.

They don't know where to look until Chil the brahminy kite, flying above them, tells them that he saw him being taken to the abandoned city; Mowgli had used the call of the jungle as he was being carried away and asked him to help.

Python Kaa helps Mowgli find an "iron tooth" - a knife, in an abandoned cave guarded by an ancient white Indian cobra.

Tabaqui, nosy as always, reports the preparations for war to his master, Shere Khan, who muses the wolves forgot the rules of the jungle.

Mowgli delays the enemy horde for some time, and then, waiting for sunset, lures the dogs into the gorge by jumping from the cliff into the river.

As a result, the young man and his friends, at the cost of huge losses, defeat the dholes, driving away the remnants of the dog pack.

In the mid-nineties the cartoon series was also released on VHS by "Studio PRO Video" with Hi-Fi Stereo sound in PAL format.

Smith noted: "While her voice might not fit Kipling's description of being 'as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree', she is bold and severe: in one instance, she scares off the terrifying tiger Shere Khan".

(Russian: Идите ко мне, бандерлоги, romanized: Idite ko mne, banderlogi) while adding, "I'm Kipling fan since childhood" (Russian: С детства люблю Киплинга, romanized: S detstva lyublyu Kiplinga), is unmistakenly associated with the adaptation because Kipling's book doesn't have the exact quote.