golden age Soon after the end of the war, in 1946, Soyuzmultfilm moved its offices to the building at Kalyaevskaya street (now ), 23A (the former , previously occupied by the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism). In the post-war years, the studio stopped the direct lifts of American animation techniques, and the original aesthetic "canon" of the children's Soviet cartoon was determined. The best Soviet cartoons of the second half of the 1940s were distinguished by impressive plasticity and facial expressions, harmony of word and movement. A lot of new names appeared among the directors and artists of the studio: Lev Atamanov, Yevgeny Migunov, Leonid Shvartsman, and others. One of the main fundamental components of the Soviet cartoon school was continuity, when beginning animators gained professional experience from prominent artists and directors. The most striking works of Soyuzmultfilm in the late 1940s were the animated films (1948) by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, (1948) by the Brumberg sisters, (1948) by Leonid Amalrik and . In 1947, Soyuzmultfilm received the first international award – (1946) by was awarded the bronze medal at the Venice Film Festival for the Best Animated Film. In 1951, the film The Humpbacked Horse (1947) by Ivan Ivanov-Vano received the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In the first half of the 1950s, the studio released popular films, many of which were based on the use of the Eclair method: by Lev Atamanov (1950) The Scarlet Flower (1952) (1954) by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky (1950) (1951) (1953) by by Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1952) The Snow Maiden (1952) (1953) by Leonid Amalrik and . In 1953, the studio began the production of puppet films. One of the first stop motion animated films were (1954) by and Two Greedy Bear Cubs (1954) by . The first major success of the puppet production was the directorial debut of Yevgeny Migunov (1954), in which several technological innovations of making and shooting puppets were applied. Many employees of the under the direction of Sergey Obraztsov joined the staff of the studio's puppet association. In 1956, having changed several addresses, the three-dimensional puppet film workshop received a permanent area in (the building of the ). In 1959, the well-known motion picture by Roman Kachanov and was released, combining stop motion, traditional and cutout animation, and won a number of prestigious awards at international festivals, including the prize of the International Film Press Federation (FIPRESCI).