58 Notable alumni of
Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
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The Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television is 248th in the world, 84th in Europe, and 3rd in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 58 notable alumni from the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ivan Dorn
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- record producerdisc jockeysongwritertelevision presenterentrepreneur
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Ivan Oleksandrovich Dorn, born Ivan Aleksandrovich Eryomin (Russian: Иван Александрович Ерёмин; born 17 October 1988), is a Ukrainian singer and actor. He is also active as a DJ, TV presenter and producer, and a former member of the band Para Normalnyh (Пара Нормальных). Since 2010 he has been a solo artist. His music combines elements of house, disco, pop, jazz, funk, UK garage, hip-hop and soul. He won an MTV EMA in 2017.
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Elina Bystritskaya
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- public figuredrama teachersingeractor
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Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya was a Soviet and Ukrainian-born Russian stage and film actress and theater pedagogue. She is regarded as one of the most prominent actresses in the Soviet and Russian film industry. Her career spanned six decades.
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Oleksiy Gorbunov
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- presenteractorradio personalitysingertelevision presenter
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Oleksiy Serhiyovych Horbunov is a Ukrainian film, television and stage actor. He has been named an Honored Artist of Ukraine (1991) and a People's Artist of Ukraine (2016).
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Bohdan Stupka
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- pedagogueactorfilm actorstage actorpolitician
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Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka was a popular Ukrainian actor and minister of culture of Ukraine. He was born in Kulykiv, General Government to Ukrainian parents. In 2001, he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. At the 26th Moscow International Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in Our Own.
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Olga Sumska
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- presentertelevision presenteractor
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Olha Sumska is a Ukrainian actress of theater and cinema, television hostess, recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1996 and the People's Artist of Ukraine (2009). In 2006 she attempted to run for a mayor of Kyiv.
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Stanislav Boklan
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
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Stanislav Volodymyrovych Boklan is a Ukrainian theater and film actor. Some notable works include The Guide (2013), Battle for Sevastopol (2015), Servant of the People 2 (2016), and the television series Servant of the People (2015–2019).
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Ada Rohovtseva
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Ada Mykolaivna Rohovtseva is a Soviet and Ukrainian stage and film actress. She has appeared in over 30 films and television shows since 1957. Professor at the National University of Culture. She won the award for Best Actress at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in Hail, Mary!.
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Alexander Rodnyansky
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- film producertelevision producermanufacturerscreenwriterfilm director
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Alexander Yefimovych Rodnyansky is a Ukrainian film director, film producer, television executive and businessman. As a media-manager Rodnyansky founded the first Ukrainian independent television network 1+1 and ran Russian CTC Media, which under his management became the first Russian media company to publicly trade on NASDAQ.
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Vladimir Bortko
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1974
- Occupations
- politicianfilm directortheatrical directortelevision directortelevision producer
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was a member of the State Duma between 2011 and 2021, and was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.
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Ruslana Pysanka
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- weather presenteractorfilm actortelevision presenterpresenter
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Ruslana Ihorivna Pysanka was a Ukrainian actress and cinematographer. She hosted several television shows, and appeared in international films. Pysanka became known as a lead presenter of the weather forecast on the Inter channel.
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Andrey Kharitonov
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- directoractortelevision actor
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Andrey Igorevich Kharitonov was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, director, screenwriter. He is best known for roles in films The Gadfly, The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta and The Invisible Man.
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Yanina Sokolova
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- actortelevision producertelevision presenterjournalistsocial activist
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Yanina Mykhailivna Sokolova is a Ukrainian journalist, activist, television presenter and actress. She works as the host of the "Rendezvous" and "Cinema" programs on Channel 5, "Shame!" program on Channel 4 and YouTube, as well as on the "Evening with Yanina Sokolova" channel on YouTube. She is the author of the multimedia project "Ya, Nina", based on real events from her life. She is the founder of the "Varto Zhyty" foundation.
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Ivan Mykolaichuk
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- film directorfilm produceractorscreenwriterfilm screenwriter
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Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer.
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Halyna Bezruk
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- actorsinger
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Halyna Anatolyivna Bezruk is a Ukrainian actress and singer. In 2012, she became a finalist in the second season of the reality talent show Holos Krainy. Bezruk's mostly notable roles include the TV series Servant of the People, "The Last Muscovite" and "House of Happiness".
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Bohdan Beniuk
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- politicianpresentertelevision presenteractor
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Bohdan Mykhailovych Beniuk is a Ukrainian film and theatre actor and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 to 2014. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). Along with Anatoliy Khostikoiev, he is a creator of the Theatrical company Beniuk and Khostikoiev.
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Natalia Vlashchenko
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- theatrologisttelevision producerediting staffcolumnistplaywright
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Natalia Vlaschenko is a Ukrainian journalist, theatrologist, screenwriter, television presenter, playwright, producer, columnist, publisher and contributing editor. She is the general producer of the Ukrainian TV-channel "ZIK", the ex-editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian socio-political magazine "Public people", and Honored Journalist of Ukraine.
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Yevhen Pluzhnyk
- Occupations
- translatorpoetwriter
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Yevhen Pavlovych Pluzhnyk was a Ukrainian poet, playwright and translator from Eastern Sloboda Ukraine.
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Yurii Tymoshenko
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1941
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractorcomedian
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Yury Trochymovych Tymoshenko was a Ukrainian Soviet actor, film director, screenwriter and spoken word artist. He was winner of the Stalin Prize (1950) and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1960).
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Liudmyla Barbir
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 2004
- Occupations
- film actortelevision presenter
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Liudmyla Hryhorivna Barbir is a Ukrainian actress and TV presenter, cohosting the morning show Breakfast with 1+1 on the channel 1+1.
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Anastasia Zurkalova
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 2016
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Anastasia Dmytrivna Ziurkalova is a Ukrainian stage and film actress. She is best known for roles in the film Aurora (2006) and TV series The Sniffer (2015).
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Roman Balayan
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1969
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Roman Gurgenovich Balayan is a Ukrainian-Armenian film director.
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Yevhen Nyshchuk
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- politicianstage actorstatespersonactor
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Yevhen Mykolayovych Nyshchuk is a Ukrainian theater and cinema actor, Merited Artist of Ukraine and a former Minister of Culture of Ukraine. He held the post from February to December 2014, and again from April 2016 to August 2019.
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Akhtem Seitablayev
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- film actortheatrical directorstage actorfilm director
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Akhtem Shevketovych Seitablayev is a Ukrainian actor, screenwriter and film director of the Crimean Tatars origin. He is the director of several high-profile films, including Haytarma in 2013 and Another's Prayer in 2017. He has expressed opposition to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and his films about the fate of several prominent Crimean Tatars have been praised throughout the former Soviet Union but criticized by hardline Russian nationalists.
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Gregory Hlady
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- stage actortelevision actordirectorfilm actortheatrical director
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Gregory Stepanovych Hlady is a Ukrainian and Canadian actor. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1973. He starred in Music for December, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
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Natalka Denysenko
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- film actor
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Nataliya Oleksandrivna Denysenko is a Ukrainian actress, director and TV presenter.
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Rayisa Nedashkivska
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriter
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Rayisa Nedashkivska is a Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cinema actress.
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Vitalina Bibliv
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 2003
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Vitalina Mykolaivna Bibliv is a Ukrainian theater, film and television actress. Winner of the Golden Yula National Prize (2019), Honored Artist of Ukraine (2020).
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Anna Kovalenko
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- journalistpolitician
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Anna Mykolayivna Kovalenko is a Ukrainian political figure, activist, and journalist. Kovalenko was the Governor of Chernihiv Oblast from 13 October 2020 until 4 August 2021, and previously served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 29 August 2019 until her resignation on 10 September 2019. She is a member of Servant of the People.
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Antonio Lukich
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 2011-2015
- Occupations
- television directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Antonio Lukić, known professionally as Antonio Lukich, is a Ukrainian filmmaker who was born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. Throughout his career, Antonio has achieved much success, gaining awards at an international and nationally recognised level. One such award is the Merited Artist of Ukraine awarded to him in March, 2021. This state honorary decoration is awarded to those who make significant contributions and achieve notable success in film and art for the country of Ukraine.
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Les Tanyuk
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- art historianpoliticiantheatrical directorfilm directordirector
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Leonid Stepanovych Tanyuk was a Ukrainian theatre and film director, Soviet dissident and politician. A founder of the Artistic Youths' Club in the 1960s, Tanyuk was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2007, representing Kyiv, Drohobych and Ukraine's 166th electoral district for the People's Movement of Ukraine before being elected on the proportional list of the Our Ukraine Bloc.
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Natalya Vasko
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- actor
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Natalya Lubomyrivna Vasko is a Ukrainian actress and television presenter. From 1999 to 2019, she was a leading actress of the Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre. She won the Golden Dzyga award in the "Best Supporting Actress" category in the film The Nest of the Turtledove (2017). She is also a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy.
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Petro Maha
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1993
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision presenterstage actorsongwriterlyricist
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Petro Maha is a Ukrainian-Rusyn actor, song and playwright, television host, and one of the presenters of the Shuster LIVE political show. He is an author of lyrics for several Ukrainian singers including Pavlo Zibrov. Maha is a Merited Artist of Ukraine.
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Lada Luzina
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- screenwriterjournalisttheatre critic
- Biography
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Vladislava Kucherova, better known by the pen name Lada Luzina (Ukrainian: Лада Лузіна), is a Ukrainian author and former journalist. Nicknamed the "Kyiv Witch", she writes novels in Russian within the crime and fantasy genres.
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Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
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- film produceractorscreenwriterdirectorfilm director
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Myroslav Mykhailovych Slaboshpytskyi is a Ukrainian film director.
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Iryna Tsilyk
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1999-2005
- Occupations
- poetscreenwriterfilm directorfilmmakerwriter
- Biography
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Iryna Tsilyk is a Ukrainian filmmaker and writer, the member of European Film Academy, Ukrainian PEN International. The winner of the “Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary” for the film "The Earth Is Blue as an Orange" at 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
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Oles Sanin
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- film directorfilm produceractormanufacturercinematographer
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Oles Hennadiyovych Sanin is a Ukrainian film director, actor, cinematographer, producer, musician and sculptor. An Honored Artist of Ukraine (2014); he was also awarded the Alexander Dovzhenko Ukrainian State Award.
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Valentyn Vasyanovych
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- screenwriterfilm directorcinematographerfilm editor
- Biography
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Valentyn Mykolayovych Vasyanovych is a Ukrainian film director. He is best known for his two films on post-traumatic stress disorder following armed conflict, Atlantis (2019), and Reflection (2021).
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Nariman Aliev
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 2014
- Occupations
- film directorfilm editorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Nariman Aliev is a Ukrainian director and screenwriter of Crimean Tatar origin. Winner of The National Film Critics Award "Kinokolo" 2019 (Best Director and Best Film).
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Oleg Zagorodnii
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Oleg Zagorodnii is a Ukrainian actor best known for the 2021 gay romantic war drama film Firebird.
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Anatolii Palamarenko
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Anatoliy NestorovYch Palamarenko is a Ukrainian singer, actor and professor who is a recipient of both the Hero of Ukraine and Shevchenko National Prize.
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Vitalii Malakhov
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- drama teachertheatrical director
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Vitalii Yukhymovych Malakhov was a Ukrainian theatre director and artistic manager-director of the Kyiv Drama Theater on Podil. He was nominated as the People's Artist of Ukraine in 2008. He was also the laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize in the field of art in 2008.
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Larysa Khorolets
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- politicianactorplaywright
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Larysa Ivanivna Khorolets was a Ukrainian actress, playwright, cultural manager, politician, and academic teacher. She played at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater from 1973 to 1990. She served as the Minister of Culture of Ukraine in the Ukrainian SSR from August 1991, and upon Ukraine's independence later that year, serving until 1992. Afterward, she held positions in cultural management, diplomatic service, and academic teaching.
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Mykhaylo Melnyk
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- directoractorscreenwriter
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Melnik - Ukrainian theater director, theater actor, screenwriter, music editor, musician. Honored Artist of Ukraine (1994), People's Artist of Ukraine (2005), Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2007). Founder, artistic director, director and the only actor of the one-of-a-kind Theater of one actor "Scream" (Dnepr).
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Serhii Bukovskyi
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- film director
- Biography
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Serhii Anatoliiovych Bukovskyi is a Ukrainian documentary film director and actor. Bukovskyi is a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers and laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize. He was awarded the honorary title of Merited Artist of Ukraine in 1996 and the title People's Artist of Ukraine in 2008. Representing the critical school of Ukrainian documentary filmmaking.
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Serhiy Mykhalchuk
- Occupations
- cinematographer
- Biography
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Serhiy Mykhalchuk is a Ukrainian cinematographer. He graduated in 1994 from the Kyiv Theater Institute of Karpenko-Karyj. In addition to film work, Mykhalchuk has also produced documentaries and television feature films, music videos, and advertising features.
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Vasyl Vovkun
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vasyl Volodymyrovych Vovkun was Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine in the second Tymoshenko Government.
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Natalia Marchenkova
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1979
- Occupations
- animatorfilm director
- Biography
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Natalya Semyonovna Marchenkova is a Soviet and Ukrainian animator and animation director.
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Volodymyr Tykhyi
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Volodymyr Viktorovych Tykhyi is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film producer of documentaries and feature films. He is a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, and he is a 2018 winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for a series of historical and documentary films about the Revolution of Dignity.
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Andrii Sharaskin
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- soldierpoliticiandirectoractor
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Andriy Andriiovych Sharaskin is a Ukrainian actor, military commander, and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party since 2020. Prior to his election, he served in the war in Donbas, commanding Cyborgs from the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps during the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport.
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Anatolii Havrylov
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- cinematographercamera operator
- Biography
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Anatoly Mikhaylovich Havrylov was a Soviet and Ukrainian cinematographer. He won the Shevchenko National Prize in 1988 for the Cossacks cartoon series. Havrylov was an Honored Art Worker of Ukraine (2010).
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Alina Gorlova
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- film directorfilm editorscreenwriter
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Alina Eduardivna Gorlova is a Ukrainian filmmaker, director, and screenwriter, specialising in documentaries. She was inducted into the Ukrainian Film Academy in 2017 and was named as an Honored Artist of Ukraine in 2021.
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Andrei Zagdansky
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Andrei Zagdansky is an transnational independent documentary filmmaker and producer originally from Ukraine.
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Volodymyr Yatsenko
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- film producer
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Volodymyr Viktorovych Yatsenko is a Ukrainian film producer.
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Ihor Haidai
- Occupations
- photographerpainter
- Biography
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Ihor Mykolaiovych Haidai is a Ukrainian photo artist and one of the founders of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine.
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Olena Demyanenko
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Olena Viktorivna Demyanenko is a Ukrainian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. She is a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Film Academy (since 2017) and the European Film Academy (since 2018). In 1990 she graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv Institute of Theater Arts.
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Mykhailo Urytskyi
- Occupations
- theatrical director
- Biography
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Mykhailo Urytskyi is a Ukrainian puppet theater director, and a teacher at The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University.
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Larysa Artiugina
- Enrolled in the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Larysa Mykhailivna Artyugina is a Ukrainian documentary film director and activist. She is a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, the Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine, the creative association Babylon'13 and the Assembly of Cultural Figures of Ukraine. She also heads the public organization New Donbas NGO and produces work on the docUA Platform of Ukrainian Documentaries.
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Khrystyna Iaroshenko
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- film directorfilm editorfilm producer
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Khrystyna Yaroshenko (Ukrainian: Христина Ярошенко, born May 18, 1985) is a Ukrainian film producer, editor, and director in New York City. She is a member of the Alliance of Women Directors and the New York Women in Film & Television.
