Leonid Lukov

Leonid Lukov
Born
Leonid Davydovich Lukov

(1909-05-02)2 May 1909
Mariupol, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Ukraine)
Died24 April 1963(1963-04-24) (aged 53)
Leningrad, Russian, Soviet Union
(now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter

Leonid Davydovich Lukov (Russian: Леонид Давидович Луков; 2 May 1909 – 24 April 1963) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.[1] He directed 25 films between 1930 and 1963. Leonid Lukov was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1957 and awarded the Stalin Prize twice: in 1941 and 1952.[2] He died in Leningrad.[3]

  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 418–420. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // ed. Sergei Yutkevich. — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987, p. 243
  3. ^ Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 174.