Vladimir Tarasov (Russian: Владимир Тарасов; born 7 February 1939 in Moscow) is a Russian animator and animation director. He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (Moscow Fine Art and Design University) from 1965 until 1970.
Since 1957 he worked at the studio Soyuzmultfilm first as an animator and then as an art director with V. Y. Bordzilovsky, M. A. Botoba and V. D. Degtyareva and then from 1970 till 1991 as the director. He is one of the founders of "Studio 13" and worked there as a dir