One of the first Tajik animated films. I think that the art style here is remarkable. Despite the high stylization, it is very clear what is going on, though this is helped a lot by the story being very simple. It kind of reminds me of Jirtdan (1969), the earliest surviving Azeri animated film, but I think this one is more polished. It's a shame that it's not available in higher quality.

Unfortunately, the director moved to work at Soyuzmultfilm in Moscow immediately after, and had to abandon this technique that she had developed. It may have had some fans at Tajikfilm, though, because most of their films ended up being made with cutout animation (though not with stained glass).

There is not much dialogue, so the translation was not overly hard.

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There was earlier surviving animation in Azerbaijan: There was one Azeri animated film made in 1965, available on YouTube.

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>There was one Azeri animated film made in 1965, available on YouTube.
Do you have a name or a link?

According to this article there was one made at Azerbaijantelefilm in that year called "Talking Lights" (Говорящие огоньки), which is confirmed on p.20-21 of the book Azerbaijani Animation (2018) (unfortunately, only 200 copies of it seem to have been printed and I can't find it anywhere, although some scanned pages can be read on Google Books).

I can't find that film on YouTube, though.