Biography

Vadim Ilyenko was born on July 3, 1932 in Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Samar, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Zozulya s diplomom (1972), Vozvrashchenie Veroniki (1964) and Nad nami Yuzhnyy Krest (1965). He was married to Emiliya Ilyenko. He died on May 8, 2015 in Kyiv, Ukraine.