Riabokrys Oleksandr Mykhailovych ( uk, Олександр Михайлович Рябокрис) (born June 1, 1952) is a current director of the documentary film department of the
National Television Company of Ukraine, and laureate of the
Vasyl Stus Prize
The Vasyl Stus Prize ( uk, Премія імені Василя Стуса), given since January 1989, is the first non-governmental prize awarded for "talent and courage" and being worthy of the memory of Vasyl Stus. This Prize was set up by the ...
.
Biography
Born in 1952 in the
mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...
city of
Krasnoarmiysk
Pokrovsk ( uk, Покровськ, ; russian: Покровск; until 2016: Krasnoarmiisk uk, Красноармі́йськ, russian: Красноармейск; until 1938: Grishino russian: Гришино; uk, Гришине,
translit. ''H ...
into a
surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...
and
bookkeeping
Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions, and is part of the process of accounting in business and other organizations. It involves preparing source documents for all transactions, operations, and other events of a business. Tr ...
family, he graduated from the
Donetsk Polytechnic institute as an
engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...
of
Industrial control systems, and from
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
State University of Cinema and television as a director.
Films
The first of his works was a film about the
haidamaka
The haidamakas, also haidamaky or haidamaks (singular ''haidamaka'', ua, Гайдамаки, ''Haidamaky'') were Ukrainian paramilitary outfits composed of commoners (peasants, craftsmen), and impoverished noblemen in the eastern part of the ...
-movement.
Among another films are:
*
Sandarmokh
Sandarmokh (russian: Сандармох; krl, Sandarmoh) is a forest massif from Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia where possibly thousands of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were executed. More than 58 nationalities were shot and bur ...
* Ukrainians from
Kolyma
Kolyma (russian: Колыма́, ) is a region located in the Russian Far East. It is bounded to the north by the East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Ocean, and by the Sea of Okhotsk to the south. The region gets its name from the Kolyma River an ...
* academic
Mykhailo Kravchuk Calvary
* Man of Will (about Mykhailo Soroka)
* The Miroslav Simchich war
* Free Cossacks (the liberation movement in 1918-1922 in Kholodny Yar)
*
Sergei Korolev"
* Opening Sky (the development of aviation in Ukraine )
* The Great Game (about the Ukrainian
scouts organisation,
Plast
The Plast National Scout Organization of Ukraine ( uk, Пласт Національна Скаутська Організація України, ''Plast Natsionalna Skautska Orhanizatsiia Ukrayiny''), commonly called Ukrainian Plast or simply P ...
)
The Great Game
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References
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1952 births
Living people
Recipients of the Vasyl Stus Prize