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Nikolay Grinko was born on 22 May 1920 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Stalker (1979), Solaris (1972) and Andrei Rublev (1966). He died on 10 April 1989 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Valentina Ivashova was born on 12 July 1915. She was an actress, known for Alexander Nevsky (1938), Sluchainaya vstrecha (1936) and The Rainbow (1944). She died on 5 July 1991 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Nikolay Panasev was born on 9 March 1918 in Kiev, Ukrainian National Republic. He was an actor, known for Koroleva benzokolonki (1963), Lita molodiyi (1959) and Sto tysyach (1958). He died on 18 July 1980 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Yuliya Pashkovskaya was born on 12 May 1938 in Voronezh, RSFSR, USSR. She was an actress, known for Obyknovennaya istoriya (1962), Zhenikh s togo sveta (1958) and Ot i do (1976). She died on 17 June 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Nikolay Olyalin was born on 22 May 1941 in Opikhalino, Vologda Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Night Watch (2004), Day Watch (2006) and Ne otstrelennaya muzyka (1990). He was married to Nelly Ivanovna Olyalina. He died on 17 November 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine.- Special Effects
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Frantsisk Semyannikov was born on 30 August 1914 in Rostov-na-Donu, Russian Empire. Frantsisk was a cinematographer, known for Fatima (1958), Battle Beyond the Sun (1959) and Ori okeanis saidumloeba (1957). Frantsisk died on 4 June 1986 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.- Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov was born in 1905, in St. Peterburg, Russian Empire. His father, named Sergei Vasilyevich Lavrov, was Director of Gymnasium of the Imperial Humanitarian Society in St. Petersburg; he emigrated to Belgrade after the Russian Revolution of 1917. His mother, named Elizaveta Akimovna, refused to emigrate and stayed home in Petrograd with her children. Young Yuri Lavrov was admitted to the troupe of Bolshoi Drama Theatre at the Age of 14. His stage costumes were designed by the legendary theatrical artist Alexandre Benois.
In 1924, Yuri Lavrov joined the troupe of "Molodoi Theatre" in Leningrad. That same year he married actress Olga Gudim-Levkovich and they lived on Ozerny Pereulok in the historic district of Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Their son, Kirill Lavrov was born in Leningrad and baptized at the nearby Chirch of St. John the Divine of Leushinsky Monastery. At that time Yuri Lavrov was a promising young actor and his future career looked bright. He made his film debut at Lenfilm studio in 1928, in Tretya molodost (1929) by director Vladimir Shmidtgof.
In the 1930s, Yuri Lavrov was shocked by a series of high-level political murders in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and the following Great Purges under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. Stalin targeted intellectuals and cultural elite for the purpose of degrading the superior reputation of the former Russian capital by destruction of its culture and society. While the director of Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) Aleksei Dikij was arrested and imprisoned, Yuri Lavrov managed to escape from Leningrad amidst the heat of the Stalinist repressions.
From 1938-1968 Yuri Lavrov was a permanent member of the troupe at Kiev State Russian Drama Theatre named after Lesya Ukrainka. During the years from 1941 - 1945 Yuri Lavrov was evacuated in Siberia because Kiev was occupied by the Nazis in the Second World War. In 1945 Yuri Lavrov with the theatrical troupe returned to Kiev. There, in 1950 he was joined by his son Kirill Lavrov who began his acting career in Kiev. There father and son Lavrovs worked in the same troupe for five years until Kirill Lavrov was invited to join the troupe of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
Yuri Lavrov remained among the leading actors in Kiev. He was honored with the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1960, and received awards and decorations for his achievements in film and on stage. Yuri Lavrov died on August 20, 1980, and was laid to rest in Baikovo Cemetery in Kiev, Ukraine. - Actor
- Director
- Writer
Leonid Bykov was born on 12 December 1928 in Znamenskoye, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974), Little Hare (1965) and Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1977). He died on 11 April 1979 in Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Nathalie Kovanko was born on 13 September 1899 in Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [now Crimea, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Michel Strogoff (1926), Le chant de l'amour triomphant (1923) and L'ordonnance (1921). She was married to Viktor Tourjansky. She died on 23 May 1967 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Oleg Dal was born on 25 May 1941 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Plokhoy khoroshiy chelovek (1973), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980) and King Lear (1970). He was married to Tatyana Lavrova, Nina Doroshina and Elizaveta Apraksina. He died on 3 March 1981 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Director
- Actor
Boris Ivchenko was born on 29 January 1941. He was a director and actor, known for Zvyozdnaya komandirovka (1983), Pod sozvezdiem bliznetsov (1979) and Nebylytsi pro Ivana (1989). He died on 28 June 1990 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.- Vladimir Nikitivich Shevchenko, born in Balta, Ukraine, was an Ukrainian/Soviet director, writer and filmmaker. He was a student at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, former VGIK, in Moscow, Russia. Shevchenko graduated as a film director in 1967. He soon became a prestigious and renowned documentary filmmaker. Shevchenko received a number of awards. Among them the Tara Shevchenko State Prize for his three part epic "Soviet Ukraine: Years of Struggle and Victories" (1974-77). Vladimir Shevchenko is best known for his remarkable documentary of the nuclear meltdown and disaster - "Chernobyl - Chronicle of Difficult Weeks" (1986). As first film team on location, together with two other cameramen he filmed the immediate result of the disaster at the nuclear plant, block 4. In all Shevchenko made 14 documentaries and 2 feature films. Vladimir Shevchenko died March 30, 1987, in Kiev, Ukraine, from the effects of exposure to radioactivity that he incurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.
- Sergo Beria was born on 28 November 1924 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He died in October 2000 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Animation Department
- Art Department
- Director
Vladimir Goncharov was born on 9 February 1940 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. Vladimir was a director, known for Le vilain petit canard (1996), Adventures of Captain Vrungel (1976) and La chèvre de monsieur Seguin (1997). Vladimir died on 14 January 2022 in Kiev, Ukraine.- Aleksandr Milyutin was born on 8 December 1946 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), Eralashnyy reys (1978) and Russkiy regtaym (1993). He died on 14 March 1993 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Yuliya Tkachenko was born on 25 July 1928 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. She was an actress, known for Idu k tebe... (1971), Proval operatsii 'Bolshaya medveditsa' (1984) and Doroha na Sich (1995). She died on 21 March 2008 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Arkadiy Gaydar was born on 22 January 1904 in Lgov, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kursk Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Timur i yego komanda (1940), Sudba barabanshchika (1956) and The Ballad of Cossack Golota (1937). He died on 26 October 1941 in Leplyavo, Kanev Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lyuplyava, Kaniv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine].
- Director
- Writer
Mikhail Grigorev was born on 6 March 1925 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Osobyy podkhod (1959), Krasnoye, sineye, zelyonoye (1966) and Vchera, segodnya i vsegda (1970). He died on 7 September 1979 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Igor Slavinskiy was born on 8 February 1953 in Kiev, USSR. He was an actor, known for The Dragon Syndrome (2012), Nachat snachala. Marta (2008) and V Parizh! (2009). He died on 7 August 2018 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Amvrosi Buchma was born on 14 March 1891 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944), Za stenoj (1928) and Arsenal (1929). He died on 6 January 1957 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Visual Effects
- Writer
- Director
Mikhail Karyukov was born on 27 July 1905 in Odessa, Russian Empire. He was a writer and director, known for Battle Beyond the Sun (1959), Mechte navstrechu (1963) and Isini chamovidnen mtidan (1954). He died on 2 December 1992 in Kiev, Ukraine.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Vladimir Denisenko was born on 7 January 1930 in Medvin, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was a director and writer, known for Povest o zhenshchine (1975), Soldatka (1960) and Son (1964). He died on 10 June 1984 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.- Vasily Zaitsev was born on 23 March 1915 in Russia. He died on 15 December 1991 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Georgiy Babenko was born on 4 March 1909 in Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Odessa Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Surovye dni (1933), Khlib i sil (1971) and Sto tysyach (1958). He died on 13 March 1977 in Kiev, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine].
- Mikhail Grishko was born on 27 February 1901 in Mariupol, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Jurgais pari (1944), Zaporozhets za Dunayem (1953) and Ukrainian Concert Hall (1952). He died on 3 June 1973 in Kiev, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine].