[2] Snegurochka (the Snow Maiden), the daughter of Spring the Beauty (Весна-Красна) and Ded Moroz, yearns for the companionship of mortal humans.

Meanwhile, the people of Berendei celebrate the end of the Maslenitsa holiday, and the Ice Maiden meets a man named Bobyl and his wife, bidding farewell to the forest and its inhabitants.

In his palace, the old Tsar Berendey discusses with his boyar Berymya the troubled situation in his kingdom caused by the anger of the Sun god Yarilo.

Accompanied by her adoptive parents, Snegurochka visits the Tsar's palace and surprises him with her lack of knowledge about love.

The festival continues, and during the celebration, the Tsar announces that Yarilo, having seen the death of Snegurochka, has transformed his anger into mercy.

In the first half of the 1950s the Soyuzmultfilm studio releases known movies of the "classical" direction — mainly children's, often based on application of "eclair" (rotoscoping).

During this period such well-known tapes as "The Tale of the Fisherman and a Small Fish" (1950), "Kashtanka" (1952) M. M. Tsekhanovsky, and "The Snow Maiden" (1952) I. P. Ivanov-Vano, etc.

In the movie "Snow Maiden" the innovative artistic touch offered by V. A. Nikitin — use of luminescent paints was used.

In the early 1980s the animated film started being issued by the Videoprogramma Goskino of the USSR video company initially on import, since 1984 on the Soviet cartridges "VK Electronics".

In the mid-nineties Studio PRO Video published the animated film on VHS in the collection of the best Soviet animated films Frost Ivanovich, Wonderful Hand Bell, Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka, Vasilisa Mikulishna, Lie's Swans and The Tale of the Fisherman and Small Fish.