In Poland it became the leader of the box-office on its first weekend, although in the United States it grossed poorly, making only $14,408 due to its limited release.

[2] A man in black is carrying a small cage from the Soviet Union to the U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

In the cage is a present from Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to Caroline Kennedy, a stray dog named Pushok.

While Strelka was running from the strange man, Vova, a circus pig, became too large to fly in his rocket, and Belka, a Samoyed, flew in his place.

A month before the launch date, the chosen group was Bula and Mula, but on the final training day, Lenny came in first, with Belka and Strelka in 2nd and 3rd place.

At the end of their flight, Strelka wanted to stay in space, because her mother had said that her father, Sirius, is living among the stars.

During the end credits, real-life archive footage from the Soviet space program and its dogs is shown.

The directors Svyatoslav Ushakov and Inna Evlannikova, as specialists with foreign experience, were finally approved.

Evlannikova - in the words of the executive producer, "a powerful production worker" - worked with everything that was directly related to animation.

To recreate Moscow in the 60s and the cosmodrome, animators studied photographs of those years and newsreels for a long time.

with some scenes of the film have been shown for some time in the program “ Спокойной ночи, малыши!”, Because the transmission format does not allow showing it in full.