Vladimir Schneiderov (Шнейдеров, Владимир Адольфович) (1900-1973) was a Soviet-era explorer and educational

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. A member of the

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since 1926, he was awarded the

People's Artist of the RSFSR People's Artist of the RSFSR (russian: Народный артист РСФСР, ''Narodnyj artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchest ...

in 1969. He was targeted by the

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for alleged anti-Soviet statements. The alleged documents against him were destroyed by the KGB member who recruited

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agent

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in the 1980s.

Victor Cherkashin Victor Ivanovich Cherkashin (russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Черка́шин) (born 22 February 1932) is a former Soviet foreign counter-intelligence officer of the PGU KGB SSSR. He was the case officer for both Aldrich Ames, a CIA ...

and

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, Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer - The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, Quote: "Among the documents I culled were multivolume files from the 1950s on Vladimir Schneiderov, a well-known film director. They included KGB reports alleging he had made anticommunist statements. The evidence was obviously false. No real information discredited the eminent director."

Filmography

* 1924 По Самарканд, (About

Samarkand fa, سمرقند , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from the top:Registan square, Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, view inside Shah-i-Zinda, ...

) * 1924 По Узбекистану (About

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) * 1925 Великий перелёт * 1928 Подножие смерти * 1930 Эль-Йемен (Аl-Yemen) (About

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) * 1931 На высоте 4500 * 1933 Два океана * 1934 Золотое озеро (fiction: U.S. title, The Golden Taiga) * 1935 Джульбарс * 1937 Ущелье Аламасов * 1938 Гайчи * 1946—1959 киносерия «Путешествия по СССР» (series: Travels in the USSR) * 1953 Происхождение жизни (Origins of life) * 1958 Под небом древних пустынь (Under the ancient desert sky) * 1960 Чарльз Дарвин (

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...

) * 1962 Жозеф Марти (Joseph Martin)

Awards

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 b ...

*Order of the Red Banner of Labor *

Order of the Red Star The Order of the Red Star (russian: Орден Красной Звезды, Orden Krasnoy Zvezdy) was a military decoration of the Soviet Union. It was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 6 April 193 ...

(14 April 1944) *

Honored Artist of the RSFSR Honored Artist of the RSFSR (, ''Zasluzhenny artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchestra conductors, who had outstanding achievements in the ...

(6 January 1955) *

(29 September 1969)

Filmography

Awards

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