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Lennauchfilm, film studio

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LENNAUCHFILM (4 Melnichnaya Street), popular science film studio. Founded in 1933 by the Kulturfilm department and the military department Roskino Film Factory (today, Lenfilm). Lennauchfilm produced over four thousand popular science, educational, and other films, many of which became prize-winners at the All-Union and International Film Festivals, and were awarded State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The studio hosted various directors at various times, including V. E. Axenov, M. M. Kligman, Y. M. Klimov, P. V. Klushantsev, N. A. Levitsky, V. N. Nikolai, and V. A. Chiginsky. The studio's workers shot unique footage of city life and military operations conducted on the Leningrad Front and Volkhov Front during the siege of 1941-44.

Reference: Научно-популярное кино: Проблемы. Размышления. Споры: Сб. науч. тр. Л., 1991.

N. B. Volman.

Persons

Axenov Vitaly Evgenievich
Chiginsky Vasily Valerievich
Kligman M.M.
Klimov Yury Mikhailovich
Klushantsev Pavel Vladimirovich
Levitsky Nikolay Alexeevich
Nikolai V.N.

Addresses

Melnichnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 4

Bibliographies

Научно-популярное кино: Проблемы. Размышления. Споры: Сб. науч. тр. СПб., 1991

The subject Index

Lenfilm, Film Studio
Siege of 1941-44

Mentioned in articles (5)

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Aranovich S.D., (1934-1996), film director ARANOVICH Semen Davidovich (1934-1996), film director, People’s Artist of Russia (1994). Graduated as a director from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1965

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Cinema CINEMA. The first Russian cinema show was held on 4 May 1896 at Aquarium, a St. Petersburg entertainment venue, showing the Brothers Lumiere's program of films

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Levitsky N.A. (1911-1982), film director LEVITSKY Nikolay Alexeevich (1911-1982, Leningrad), documentary film director, People's Artist of the USSR in 1982. After graduating from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1936

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Petrov-Bytov Pavel Petrovich (1895-1960), film director PETROV-BYTOV (real name Petrov) Pavel Petrovich (1895-1960, Leningrad), film director, script writer. He worked as unskilled worker and barge hauler. In 1915-21, he served in the army. He graduated from the Petrozavodsk theatre school (1921)

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