Big Bird Goes to Russia

Big Bird Goes to Russia was a proposed television special that would have seen Big Bird traveling to the Soviet Union.

Following the success of Big Bird in China, producers at Children's Television Workshop began developing the project and made at least two scouting missions between 1985 and 1986. Jon Stone made a visit in the second half of 1985 to search for filming locations, and Joan Ganz Cooney took a trip in March of 1986.

While the production never came to fruition, CTW developed Ulitsa Sezam as a co-production with Russia in 1996.