Oleksandr Riabokrys

Oleksandr Mykhailovych Riabokrys (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.

Biography Born in 1952 in the mining city of Krasnoarmiysk into a surveying and bookkeeping family, he graduated from the Donetsk Polytechnic institute as an engineer of Industrial control systems, and from Saint Petersburg State University of Cinema and television as a director.

Films The first of his works was a film about the haidamaka-movement. Among another films are: Sandarmokh Ukrainians from Kolyma 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)