Voronezh State University
On 29 January 2013, a few weeks after the release, Voronezh State University partnered with Wizart Animation to open an animation department at the university. The partnership was intended to be a training base for future employees to the animation studio. Film producer Sergey Selyanov, visited the studio during 2013. At a conference at City Hall with Governor Alexey Gordeev, Selyanov remarked Voronezh is developing domestic animation and within a very short time Wizart Animation was able to become a reputable high-tech film industry company comparable to its peers in St.Petersburg. At the top ten highest-grossing production centers and film companies in Russia in the first half of 2013, Wizart Animation came in tenth place. "Kommersant" believed the "The Snow Queen" film was part of a creative industry movement that inaugurated a new era in Russian animation.