Lyudmila Stanukinas

Lyudmila Igorevna Stanukinas was a Soviet documentary filmmaker. She was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR. 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. Among her students is Victor Kossakovsky.