Людмила Станукинас

Lyudmila Igorevna Stanukinas (Russian: Людмила Игоревна Станукинас; 25 November 1930 – 8 July 2020) was a Soviet documentary filmmaker. She was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989). She was member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. Stanukinas died on 8 July 2020 in Israel. Having previously worked for the company "Lenfilm" in the 1950's, Stanukinas had first gone to a film university, but instead graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in English. Despite this, her focus remained on film and she joined the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio in 1958.