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Actor Viktor Shkuryn

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Born: 1932-01-05

Dead: 88 (2020-10-26)

From: Mariupol, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]

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Viktor Heorhiiovych Shkuryn was a Soviet and Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. People's Artist of Ukraine (2002). He was a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.

From: Mariupol, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]

Biography:

Viktor Heorhiiovych Shkuryn was a Soviet and Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. People's Artist of Ukraine (2002). He was a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.

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During the period of the 20-30s of the twentieth century, Ukrainian culture experienced its formation, flourishing and tragic finale. The three-part documentary tells about the shares of Vladimir Sosyura, Pavel Ticini, Nikolai Fitilev, Les Kurbas, Nikolai Kulish, Mikhail Boychuk and Alexander Dovzhenko. The film uses a chronicle of that time, the authors visited the places where the events of this dark era for Ukraine unfolded, and in numerous museums that have preserved materials, papers and evidence of those years.

The July Storms. Strike 1989

The July Storms is a dilogy about the first mass protests in Soviet Ukraine in a long time. The parts of the dilogy, Strike and Outburst, are dedicated to two waves of miners' strikes in Donetsk, in 1989 and 1990, which were unprecedented in scale. Several hundred thousand miners took part in these historical strikes. The events themselves became a significant factor in the history of the collapse of the Soviet communist system. While recording the unfolding of the strike and the miners' speeches on the square in Donetsk, the film's creators also observe the miners' miserable living conditions and hard working conditions at the Lidiyevka mine.

The July Storms. Outburst 1991

The second film of The July Storms duology starts with an accident at the Pochenkov Mine in February 1990, which caused the death of 13 miners. Since the summer protests, the real situation in the mines hardly changed; this lead to the second wave of miners' protests in 1990-91. This time, the miners' slogans include political demands, mentioning the decommunization of power and Ukraine's independence. The miners' representatives meet the communist officials, in particular with Stanislav Hubenko, the last First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and Nikolay Ryzhkov, the head of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The miners meet the August coup and the final disintegration of the country of the Soviets in strike committees.