Investigation Held by Kolobki

Investigation Held by Kolobki (Russian: Следствие ведут Колобки, translit.

Sledstvie vedut kolobki) is a series of Soviet animated shorts by Alexander Tatarsky and Igor Kovalyov that were produced from 1986 to 1987.

A foreign smuggler named Karbophos (an allusion to Karabas Barabas, though also a Soviet term for Malathion insecticide), under the guise of a tourist, steals a rare striped elephant—named Baldakhin—from a city zoo in Berdychiv.

At a souvenir shop, Karbophos obtains a certificate for a porcelain elephant that he purchases (and then promptly breaks).

However, the Kolobki brothers manage to arrive in the nick of time, and lure the elephant away with cod-liver oil.