# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/igor-kovalyov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:04:18.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/igor-kovalyov"
name: "Igor Kovalyov"
slug: "igor-kovalyov"
description: "Igor Adolfovich Kovalyov is a Russian animator, director and educator, co-founder of Pilot — the first private animation studio in the Soviet Union. From 1991 to 2005 he worked at Klasky Csupo where he co-created Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and co-directed The Rugrats Movie. He currently serves as a creative producer at Soyuzmultfilm. Kovalyov is also known for his auteur films for which received multiple international awards, including three Grand Prizes at the Ottawa International Animation Festival."
tagline: "Soviet and American animator"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1954-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.15
  momentum:             9.476987447698745
  historical:           6.015089333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468335/"
    handle:    "nm0468335"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%86%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Ковальов Ігор Адольфович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dgor_Kovaliov"
    title: "Ígor Kovaliov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kovaljov"
    title: "Igor Kovaljov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kovalyov"
    title: "Igor Kovalyov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kovaljov"
    title: "Igor Kovaljov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%91%D0%B2%2C_%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Ковалёв, Игорь Адольфович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4225592"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5141623"
    title: "Igor Kovalyov"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump