Anatoly Alexeyevich Petrov (Russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Петров; 15 September 1937 — 3 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian animation director, animator, artist and educator at VGIK known as the founder of the long-running anthology series Happy Merry-Go-Round and developer of the animation technique he called photographics (also known as graphical painting). A member of ASIFA, he was named Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR in 1989.