The fairy tale story drawn in traditional animation describes the life of kitten Vasily who finds it difficult living in the African wilderness as a hippopotamus.

Where he meets a blue elephant and a lion, saves an ostrich from a hungry crocodile and befriends a marmoset who lives in the coconut trees.

Eventually Vasiliy is feeling nostalgic for his love to its home at the Lizyukov street and tells the crow to return to his original form.

[1][2] Vitaly Zlotnikov, the screenwriter settled the hero on a real historical street of a residential neighborhood of Voronezh, named after General Alexander Lizyukov.

[6] The Kitten from Lizyukov Street is Voronezh resident's favorite cartoon whose characters are part of their cultural fabric and heritage.

Among the leaders of the proposals which included the Chelyabinsk meteorite, Golden Bridge in Vladivostok, was the kitten Vasily from Liyukov Street.

[3] In 2007 Voronezh residents nominated the iron kitten at Lizyukov Street for the title of honorary citizen of the city.

[8] In 2009, the kitten was almost nominated for the title of unofficial symbol of Voronezh with just one percent difference in voting from the other nominee Peter the Great.

A the workshop, construction began based on the design by a student at Voronezh who won the best competition for pre-visualization concept art for the project.

[8] In 2018 Winter Sberbank Games at Krasnaya Polyana, Krasnodar Krai, one of the team to compete had the Kitten from Liyukova Street (TSCHB) mascot.

[18] Recently in 2019, near two hotels at the villages of Otradnoye and Podkletnoye at Voronezh, bronze sculptures of a Kitten from Lizyukov Street were installed.

The fairy tale qualities of the film starkly contrasts from other adaptation that usually have such characters as "image of the peacemaker - cat Leopold" or "super-hero, like the giant Uncle Stepa or the crocodile Gena."

Instead the fairy tale by "animated Soviet Olympus" director Kotyonochkin is depicted as "the miracle that came in the form of a crow."

The crow's miracle that sends Vasily to Africa is similar to the "force that sent Alice down the rabbit hole, or Dorothy to Oz.

[9] In mid-2016, Voronezh studio Wizart Animation together with Soyuzmultfilm began shooting a 3D cartoon Kitten from Lizyukov Street 2 that was released in 2017.