Masha and the Bear is a Russian animated television series created by Oleg Kuzovkov and produced by Animaccord Animation Studio, loosely based on the oral children's folk story of the same name. The show focuses on the adventures of a little girl named Masha and a fatherly bear that always keeps her from disasters. The first episode was released in 2008. The series has been translated into 25 languages and was broadcast in more than 100 countries.
The series was released on Netflix and through NBCUniversal. Many of the episodes have been successful on YouTube; in particular, one copy of the video "Маша плюс каша" has received over 2.7 billion views, making it the site's seventh most viewed video of all time, and the most viewed video on YouTube that is not a music video. The remaining top ten most viewed Masha and the Bear videos are: "Bon Appétit", with over 1.0 billion views; "Laundry Day", with over 880 million views; "La Dolce Vita", with over 670 million views; "The Foundling", with over 640 million views; "Hocus-Pocus", with over 540 million views; "Two Much", with over 460 million views; "One, Two, Three!