At that time it employed several famous Soviet directors and сinematographers: Anatoliy Pogoreliy, Sergey Fomin, Yefim Uchitel, Vladimer Stradin, Nikolay Blazhkov, Evgeniy Shapiro.

[4] In 1943 Valeriy Solovtsov, Anselm Bogorov, Anatoliy Pogorelov, Vladimir Stradin and Yefim Uchitel received the “Stalin prize” for the documentary.

[11] In 1966 Studio employees managed to illegally film the funeral of Anna Akhmatova, any recording of which was prohibited by Soviet authorities since she was considered an unofficial leader of the dissident movement.

They included Alexander Sokurov's documentary “And nothing more” (И ничего больше) and Nikolay Obukhovich's “Our Mother is a Hero” (Наша мама - герой).

[22] List of the studio executives is composed in accordance with the records of Saint Petersburg Central State Cinema Archive