His father Mykhailo Semyonovich Tatarskyy worked in circus and wrote gags for such clowns as Oleg Popov and Yuri Nikulin who was a close family friend.
[3] He managed to get work at Multtelefilm division of Studio Ekran with the help of Eduard Uspensky who wrote the screenplay for Tatarsky's first director's effort — Plasticine Crow (1981), which also happened to be Soviet first claymation film.
[5] After the enormous success Tatarsky was offered to create new opening and closing sequences for the popular children's TV show Good Night, Little Ones!
also made of plasticine, which was computerized in 2002 with brighter colors and new details commissioned by the VGTRK (with a brand new version of the lullaby written by Zoya Petrova sung by Oleg Anofriyev); they were later included into the Guinness Book of Records by the number of broadcasts.
In his interviews Tatarsky called it a great tragedy for the Russian animation industry which was already in poor state by that time.
Its first program, Fruttis Attic, ran from 1997 to 1999 and featured Pilot Brothers, two "virtual hosts" based on the characters from Investigation Held by Kolobki (1987) who interviewed real-life celebrities.
Tatarsky served as an artistic director and in 2000 launched another similar project — Turn off the Light!, a political satire loosely based on Good Night, Little Ones!.
Tatarsky was also the founder of Mountain of Gems, Pilot's biggest project made with the support of the State Committee for Cinematography.