Elbert Tuganov

Known for Directing

Born February 22, 1920

Died March 22, 2007

Place of Birth Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]

Elbert Tuganov (February 22, 1922 – March 22, 2007) was an Azerbaijani-Estonian animator and film director. He is known as "the father of Estonian animation". Tuganov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan to an Estonian mother and an Ossetian father. In 1946 he joined with Tallinnfilm. In 1958 he created the first Estonian animated film Peetrikese unenägu.