''Masha and the Bear'' (, ) is a Russian

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animated television series created by Oleg Kuzovkov and produced by Animaccord Animation Studio, loosely based on the oral children's

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of the same name. The series focuses on the adventures of a very young girl named Masha and a bear (whom she dubs "Mishka"), her caring friend who always keeps her safe from disasters. ''Masha and The Bear'' is the most watched preschool series in the world, with 36 times more requests than the average. It is also the fifth most-watched youth series (3–7) worldwide, just ahead of

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. Many of the episodes have been successful on

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. In particular, the original Russian-language version of the episode "Recipe for Disaster" () has almost 4.6 billion views as of January 2025, making it the site's fourteenth most viewed video of all time, and the most viewed video on YouTube that is not a music video. The show was first launched on January 7, 2009, and it was the first Russian-produced animated TV show to be released in 4K. The show provides the basis for the Masha and The Bear Land of Laughter, an area with attractions aimed at younger children at the theme park The Land of Legends, near

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Plot

Masha is a four-year-old girl who lives in the forest in an unspecified location in Russia (possibly near

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) with her pig, goat, and dog. In the first episode, it is shown that all the animals in the forest are afraid of her, as she is constantly forcing them to play with her. Then Masha sees a butterfly and inadvertently follows it inside the home of the Bear, who has gone fishing. While playing there, she makes a big mess. When he returns, he sees the disaster caused by Masha. The Bear tries to get rid of Masha but after multiple failed attempts, the unlikely duo become friends. In each episode of the show, Masha is portrayed as a bright little girl who loves exploring the world around her. Masha's shenanigans result in unexpected but entertaining situations that are at the heart of the show's episodes. The kind-hearted Bear is always trying to keep Masha out of trouble. There are several supporting characters in the series, including Masha's cousin Dasha, a penguin adopted by the Bear, a young panda cub from China (the Bear's cousin), two wolves who live in an old

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ambulance, a tiger that used to work with the Bear in the circus, and a Female Bear that is the object of the Bear's affections. Characters also include a hare, squirrels and hedgehogs, a pig called Rosie, a goat, and a dog who all live in Masha's front yard.

Characters

Main characters

Masha

Masha is a 4-year-old girl who is portrayed as naughty and hyperactive, and always thinks about playing. She lives in a house near a

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; near her house there is a path that leads to the Bear's house. Masha loves the bear very much, but in her games she tends to create problems for him. In the series, neither Masha's parents nor the parents of her friends are shown. She loves sweets, jumping in a bucket, and looking at drawings of her and Bear. Masha's character combines the characteristics of 4-year-old (making grammatical errors when speaking, crying when she is not given what she wants, throwing tantrums) with adult skills (playing tennis, fishing, making preserves, playing electric guitar and speaking perfectly). In the episode "God Save the Queen", it is revealed that Masha has

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, as she managed to pull a multi-ton train near her house just to give an elephant reception for the Lion King. She is voiced by Alina Kukushkina in Russian, and in English by

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. In subsequent seasons, Masha was dubbed by Rebecca Bloom (ep. 27–39), Angelica Keamy (ep. 40–52), Giulia De Carvalho (53–91), and now dubbed by Kaitlyn McCormick. She is usually shown wearing a white shirt under a red-purple dress with a red-purple kerchief covering her short blonde hair.

Bear

The bear is a retired circus

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who lives in a house hollowed out of a tree in the forest. His past occupation makes him very talented in performing arts (like juggling, unicycling, and even stage magic) although he's also known to dabble into other hobbies and even some intellectual pursuits. Some episodes feature flashbacks in which he remembers his childhood as a cub in the same house. In the Russian-language version, Masha calls him "Mishka" (), a diminutive form of the name Mikhail (i.e. "Mikey"), which is also the traditional name given to bears in Russian tales. He is a huge bear with a big heart and he is Masha's father-like figure, as well as a friendly figure to her. He was voiced by Boris Kutnevich and Irina Kukushkina. He earlier also resided in

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Masha's pets

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, a

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and a

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(and in the episode "How They Met", three

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s) who live outside Masha's house in her front yard, but almost every time Masha comes out, they hide themselves to avoid her. The Pig is often forced to play with Masha, who makes it dress up like a baby in a stroller. In the episode "Dance Fever" it is revealed that the pig's name is Rosie.

The wild animals

The wild animals are a

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s and two

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. Masha and a certain Hare—in "One, two three! Light the Christmas Tree", Father Frost's list calls him 'Bunny', and in "Surprise! Surprise!" he delivers painted eggs—often play hockey together (and make a mess or accidentally hurt someone). The Hare is occasionally an antagonist of the Bear, due to stealing carrots from the Bear's garden. The two Wolves live in a derelict ambulance car on top of a hill, often looking for something to eat, and act as medics for any apparent injuries or illnesses, though they sometimes fear Masha (living in an ambulance cab and acting as medics is a pun on the Russian idiomatic expression , "wolves are orderlies of the woods").

She-Bear

The She-Bear is a female

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. The Bear has a crush on her and sometimes goes out of his way to impress her. The first time she rebuffed him in favor of the Black Bear, only to later realize how self-absorbed the Black Bear is. Another time, she turned her nose up at the Bear's

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playing as she preferred more modern music. Even so, the She-Bear usually opens up to the Bear, such as the time she agreed to have a dinner with him, and she is sometimes kind to Masha, such as giving her a fashion magazine, helping to train her for her tennis match against the Black Bear, and helping her learn to ice-skate.

Dasha

Dasha is Masha's cousin from

, who looks exactly like Masha, but is more "ladylike", has platinum-blonde hair and blue eyes (Masha's are green), wears boxy, blue-rimmed glasses and a red-orange dress. She is afraid of the Bear and calls him "Shaggy", "Monster" and "Beast". She is voiced by Alina Kukushkina.

Panda

Panda is a

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cub and the Bear's young cousin from China. He and Masha are rivals, often bickering every time he comes for a visit, but they occasionally get along and have fun together.

Recurring characters

Lion

A lion wearing a crown, who is a good friend of the bear. He sometimes visits the bear, to play together the game of chess or for collective outdoor adventures. He was always disturbed by Masha, sometimes being advised to him not to help bear as a king is not supposed to help anyone. Once the lion offered his crown to Masha, making her a queen for temporary basis.

Whiskers n' Stripes

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who is Bear's best friend from their days performing together in the

circus.

The Black Bear

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, who is Bear's worst enemy and Bear's chief rival for the attentions of the She-Bear. The Black Bear has an arrogant and unsportsmanlike personality, cheating to win against Masha in a tennis game, and laughing at her when she grows gigantic. Bear's biggest fear is if Black Bear and She-Bear marry, which is shown in Game Over when Bear imagines what will happen if he plays games his whole life.

Penguin

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that first appears in "The Foundling", as an egg that Masha finds and makes the Bear hatch. The Penguin quickly imprints on the Bear as his parental-figure and the Bear forms a sincere bond with him, but chooses to send the Penguin to live in Antarctica for his own health. Even so, they stay in touch and the Penguin once visited.

Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost)

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Four-eyed aliens

A trio of alien specimens who accidentally crashed on Earth. They were helped by Bear and Masha to get back to their spaceship.

Sources

According to the project's director, Denis Chervyatsov,

Production

The series' production has been handled domestically at Animaccord Animation Studio since 2008.Date of publication not specified in online article. The scenario for each episode is written by Oleg Kuzovkov, creator of the cartoon. Then the storyboarding is developed in accordance with the script and, in general, consists of at least 2000 slides. After the team finalizes the plot of an episode, the work for the 2D animatic kicks off. At this stage, animators define the duration of each scene in an episode, how characters are placed in it and interact with each other. After this step of the production is finished, the episode is passed for dubbing. Dubbing must be completed before 3D animation is applied, as the 3D animators need to know the characters' dialogue, intonations, and emotions in advance in order to keep their lip movements synchronized to the audio and make their facial expressions look realistic.

3D animation

The 3D animation process begins right after dubbing has been finished. Animators manipulate all the movements that happen during the scenes, such as opening doors, taking books from bookshelves, and creating all the bodily movements required to bring the characters to life.

Rendering Manager

Rendering Manager brings all the processes together. Renderers colorize grey 3D models and add such details as the Bear's fur, Masha's hair, etc. They create the lighting and weather in the scene as determined by the script.

Compositing

Compositing is the final stage of production, where the compositors review all shots of an episode, checking the color intensities, smoothing the edges of 3D models, adding 2D/3D effects and bringing all the components together to form a complete episode. Then the work is approved by the director and script-writer and uploaded to the show's official YouTube channel 'Masha and the Bear - Official Channel' formerly 'MashaBearTV' before it can be shown on TV.

Actors

Masha, her cousin Dasha, and Father Frost are the only characters who speak. The others communicate through

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, talking only

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or wordless sounds. The non-human characters does not speak

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or any human languages coherently, and thus the others only speak gibberish. For the first two seasons, Masha's voice in the original Russian version was performed by Alina Kukushkina, who was 6 years old when she began to dub Masha. For the third season (seven years later in 2015), the officials of Animaccord studio confirmed that the new voice of Masha would be 6-year-old Barbara Sarantseva and then replaced again by Yulia Zunikova in 2020. The show's sound designer, Boris Kutnevich, provides the voice of The Bear. Mark Kutnevich provides the voice of The Hare. For the English version,

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'' films – dubbed the voice of Masha in the first season. In subsequent seasons Masha was dubbed by Rebecca Bloom (ep. 27–39) and Angelica Keamy (ep. 40–52) and now is Kaitlyn McCormick. For the Indonesian version, Azelia Rashika Andini was Masha's voice.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for each episode is written by Russian composer Vasily Bogatyrev. Many compositions are stylized for famous works:

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, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, a circus theme from the film ''

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'', and in the episode "One-Hit Wonder" the rockstar Masha performs a song in the style of the group

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. Most of the songs used in the cartoon, such as the soundtracks of "Laundry Day" and "The Grand Piano Lesson" episodes, became popular in Russia and abroad.

Awards and achievements

*In January 2015, the cartoon was included into a list of "TV Shows Destined to be Classics", which was compiled by the cartoon industry's periodical Animation Magazine to mark its 250 issue. *In February 2015, ''Masha and the Bear'' won a 2015 Kidscreen Award for Best Animation in the Creative Talent. *In October 2015, Kidscreen Magazine named Animaccord Animation Studios as one of the top 50 leaders in the world of animation (Kidscreen Hot50) and the top 10 production companies of the year. *In 2018, the cartoon was included in the Guinness World Records as the most-watched animated video on YouTube, with the episode "Recipe for Disaster" that today counts over 4.6 billion views. The episode was included in the most viewed video of all time, together with such well-known artists as Ed Sheeran with "

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" video and Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee with "

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". According to the

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, "Masha, who is dressed in a folk costume with a headscarf, became a household name in many

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nations including

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." Dmitry Loveyko, managing director of Animaccord, said that "It's a Muslim country, so we thought we're lucky she wears a headscarf and her legs are covered!"

Mobile apps

The first ''Masha and the Bear'' mobile app was released by Apps Ministry in August 2011. In 2013 the first mobile game ''Masha and the Bear: Search and Rescue'' was published by Apps Ministry. Later more publishers such as Indigo Kids, PSV Studio, Noviy Disk developed and released games and apps featuring Masha and the Bear.

Distribution

Netflix has released 27 of the first 29 episodes in 9 episodes of 3 segments each. Many of the videos were uploaded multiple times on three different YouTube channels ("Маша и Медведь", "Get Movies" and "Masha and The Bear") so their view counts across up to three channels have been combined.

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Shorties

Specials

International versions

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. The show returned to Universal Kids in the US on 4 August 2023 after seven months of being off the air.

Spin-offs

''Masha's Tales''

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series to the show titled ''Masha's Tales'' is also available on Netflix. In the show Masha (voiced by a much older actress) tells classic

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s as well as some

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to her toys. However, Masha makes up her own way of telling the stories (Such as putting a magical nutcracker who turns into a prince when she adapts ''

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''). She also mixes up the morals of the stories by often adding an additional ending so that way it could fit with what she is telling her toys. ''Masha's Tales'' premiered on

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's sister pre-school channel,

, on 20 June 2016. Debut dates listed per

''Masha's Spooky Stories''

''Masha's Spooky Stories'' premiered on Cartoonito UK and Netflix on Halloween 2016. Debuts dates listed are for English releases in Canada on

, original air dates in Russia unknown:

References

External links

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Plot

Characters

Main characters

Masha

Bear

Masha's pets

The wild animals

She-Bear

Dasha

Panda

Recurring characters

Lion

Whiskers n' Stripes

The Black Bear

Penguin

Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost)

Four-eyed aliens

Sources

Production

3D animation

Rendering Manager

Compositing

Actors

Soundtrack

Awards and achievements

Mobile apps

Distribution

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Shorties

Specials

International versions

Spin-offs

''Masha's Tales''

''Masha's Spooky Stories''

See also

References

External links