Vera Tsekhanovskaya (Russian: Вера Цехановская; born Vera Vseslavovna Shengelidze on December 25, 1902)[1] was a Russian and Soviet animation director who died on April 25, 1977.
[2] Between 1919 and 1922, Tsekhanovskaya worked as an architectural faculty member at Petrograd Polytechnic.
Then from 1923 to 1924, she worked in the graphics department of the Leningrad Art and Industrial Technical School.
During the evacuation of Samarkand, she entered the Soyuzmultfilm, where she worked as an animator and then an assistant director of cartoon films.
The married couple directed many animated films together, including The Wild Swans (1962),[2] which was part of a dossier commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution.