This is a weird one. It was made during a transitional period in more ways than one. Traditional analogue animation techniques were being replaced by digital ones, which were still very rough (as one can clearly see here). The studio Soyuzmultfilm had recently been liquidated and all its old personnel fired, only to be "recreated" as two different organizations both called "Soyuzmultfilm": one which had the rights to the old catalogue, and another that was supposed to continue making films (but with no source of income other than government grants). The country had recently had a currency crash and a financial crisis, as well as a new president.

I suppose the "new" studio had to prove that it was making films, and the three to-be graduates needed something on their CV, so Hitruk and Boyarskiy managed to arrange for their students to release something through the studio, creating a new series for short films similar to Merry-Go-Round (which I think was on a brief hiatus during this period). I don't think a "Goat #2" was ever made.

All in all, these three people graduated from the School of Advanced Studies at a very uncertain time, and subsequently kind of slipped between the cracks. None of them have any other work listed in animator.ru, although Yusupov (who had come from Tajikistan and had already received two film-related diplomas there) went on to make some commercials, music videos and short documentaries. As for the other two, I can't find a thing about them. Not even Polovnikova's first name.

The best animation in the film is honestly of the goat who appears in between the three shorts, who has a charm that reminds me of the studio's classic work of the 1960s and 1970s. I wonder who animated her? It doesn't really look like any of the other animation.