Les Tanyuk
Appearance
Les Tanyuk | |
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Лесь Танюк | |
![]() Tanyuk in 2011 | |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
In office 15 May 1990 – 23 November 2007 | |
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Born | Leonid Stepanovych Tanyuk 7 August 1938 Zhukyn , Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
Died | 18 March 2016 | (aged 77)
Political party | People's Movement of Ukraine |
Other political affiliations | Our Ukraine Bloc |
Alma mater | National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kyiv |
Leonid (Les) Stepanovych Tanyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід (Лесь) Танюк, August 7, 1938 – March 18, 2016) was a Ukrainian theatre and movie director. He was a dissident and the head of the Club of Creative Youth. After 1991's Ukrainian independence Tanyuk became a multiple re-elected member of the Ukrainian parliament.[1]
Tanyuk died on March 18, 2016 in Kyiv, Ukraine from stomach cancer at the age of 77.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ (in Ukrainian) Died outstanding director and politician Les Tanyuk, Segodnya (March 18, 2016)
- ↑ National artist of Ukraine Les Taniuk dies, Interfax-Ukraine (March 18, 2016)