Ilya Petrovich Kopalin (russian: Илья́ Петро́вич Копа́лин; 1900–1976) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

film director remembered for his documentaries. His most famous footage is that of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the

Yalta Conference The Yalta Conference (codenamed Argonaut), also known as the Crimea Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the post ...

and that of

Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. T ...

's space flight.

Life

He was born the son of a peasantSoviet Calendar 1917–1947, Foreign Publishing House, Moscow 1947 on 2 August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya,

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on the outskirts of

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. In his youth he worked in a factory in Moscow. After October 1917 he trained first as a land surveyor then as a pilot. A chance meeting with

Dziga Vertov Dziga Vertov (russian: Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман, and also known as Denis Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsre ...

led him instantly into an interest in the cinema. Aged 24 he went to work for Vertov as a camera-man, working on films such as Kinoglaz, but later would work independently. His early films look at country life and agriculture in the newly created

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. His work gained him six Stalin Prizes and the

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration ...

. He died in Moscow on 12 June 1976.

Filmography

*Moscow (1927) *''Za Urazhoy'' (For the Harvest) (1929) *''Fifteen Years of Soviet Cinematography'' (1933) *''Engineers of the Human Soul'' (1934) – a documentary recording the

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*''Abyssinia'' (c.1935) *''China's Rebuff'' (c.1937) *''Ma Dunae'' (On the Danube) (1940) Stalin Prize 1941 *''Rout of the German Troops at Moscow'' (1941) *''Stalin's Speech of November 6, 1942'' (1943) *''

Moscow Strikes Back ''Moscow Strikes Back'' (russian: Разгром немецких войск под Москвой, ''Razgrom Nemetskikh Voysk Pod Moskvoy'', "Rout of the German troops near Moscow") is a Soviet war documentary about the Battle of Moscow made du ...

'' (1942) –

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosoph ...

*''Krymskaya Konferentsiya'' (Crimea Conference) (1945) *''Liberated Czechoslovakia'' (1945) *''Den Pobedivshey Strany'' (Victory Day Country) (1948) *''Novaya Albaniya'' (New Albania) (1949) *''Man Conquers Nature'' (1950) *''Albaniya'' (Albania) (1953) *''Velikoe Proshanie'' (Great Farewell) (1953) *''Za Mir i Druzhbu'' (For Peace and Friendship) (1954) *''Songs over the Vistula'' (1955) *''Festival Melody'' (1955) *''Vrashavskie Vstrechi'' (Warsaw Meeting) (1956) *''Lulzo Shiqiperi'' (Lulz Shippers) (1959) * ''Gorod Bolshoi Sudby'' (Destiny of a Great City) (1961) *''Pervi Rejs v Zvezdam'' (First Flight to the Stars) (1961) – a chronicle of

Yuri Gargarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Tr ...

's space flight *''Tocsin of Peace'' (1963) *''Qunetra Ruins Accused'' (1974)

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* * * – Duration: 1:06:21 1900 births 1976 deaths People from Istrinsky District People from Zvenigorodsky Uyezd (Moscow Governorate) Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet cinematographers Soviet film directors Soviet film editors Soviet documentary film directors People's Artists of the USSR People's Artists of the RSFSR Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Grand Crosses of the Order of the White Lion Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery {{Russia-film-director-stub