The Kitten from Lizyukov Street is a 1988 Soviet animated film directed by Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin of Soyuzmultfilm animation studio.

Plot

A British shorthair named Vasiliy who always wanted to be bold against the yard dogs. One day his wish is granted as a crow lets him be turned into a pink hippopotamus and finding himself in the African Savanna. Where he meets a blue elephant and a lion, saves an ostrich from a hungry crocodile and befriends a marmoset who lives in the coconut trees. Eventually Vasiliy is feeling nostalgic for his love to its home at the Lizyukov street and tells the crow to return to his original form. The crow accepts and Vasily is transported back to the Lizyukov street. The renewed kitten now can be bold against the yard dogs again because he has not lost his roar of the hippopotamus.