Lendoc
| Company type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Film industry |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Headquarters | Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation |
| Website | lendocstudio.com |
Saint Petersburg Documentary Films Studio or Lendoc (Russian: Лендок) is one of the largest documentary film studios in Russia, founded in 1932 as “Leningrad Newsreel Studio”. The studio continued to work during the Siege of Leningrad and it produced the very first documentary about the siege “Leningrad In Fight" (Ленинград в борьбе). The films produced on Lendoc have received numerous awards on Soviet and International film festivals.
Annual output through 1980-is included 40 documentaries, 9-10 newsreels, stories for the “Daily News" (Новости дня) news program and up to 50 commercials. The studio was affected by the crisis caused by the dissolution of the USSR, however it managed to overcome it and produced over 100 documentaries since 2001.