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Les Tanyuk

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Les Tanyuk
Лесь Танюк
Tanyuk in 2011
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
15 May 1990 – 23 November 2007
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Constituency
Personal details
Born
Leonid Stepanovych Tanyuk

(1938-08-07)7 August 1938
Zhukyn [uk], Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died18 March 2016(2016-03-18) (aged 77)
Political partyPeople's Movement of Ukraine
Other political
affiliations
Our Ukraine Bloc
Alma materNational 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]

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