Rafael P. Babayan

In 1949 he graduated from the artistic department of VGIK, and animating courses of "Soyuzmultfilm" (Moscow). During 1950 he was art director of Yerevan Young Spectator Theater, and between 1950-52, art director of Puppet Theater. Since 1953 he has worked at Armenfilm. In the 1960s, along with Valentin Podpomogov and Stepan Andranikyan he revived the Armenian animation film.