Valery Uskov
Valery Ivanovich Uskov (22 April 1933 – 24 August 2025) was a Russian film and television director and screenwriter. He was known for directing the films The Slowest Train (1963), Stewardess (1967) and Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969), as well as episodes of the historical television series Eternal Call. He directed almost all of his films alongside his second cousin, Vladimir Krasnopolsky.
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Valery Uskov
- Name
- Valery Uskov
- Birth Name
- Valery Ivanovich Uskov
- Born
- 22 April 1933
- Birthplace
- Sverdlovsk, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
- Died
- 24 August 2025
- Occupation
- * Director
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russia
- Fields
- socialist realism
- Education
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
- Honours
- USSR State Prize · Order of Honour · Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 3rd class · Order For Merit to the Fatherland and 4th class · Lenin Komsomol Prize · People's Artist of the RSFSR
- Languages
- Russian
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Valery Ivanovich Uskov (22 April 1933 – 24 August 2025) was a Russian film and television director and screenwriter. He was known for directing the films The Slowest Train (1963), Stewardess (1967) and Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969), as well as episodes of the historical television series Eternal Call. He directed almost all of his films alongside his second cousin, Vladimir Krasnopolsky.
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The two separated in 2016. Uskov graduated from Ural State University in 1955, and from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1961. He worked at Sverdlovsk Film Studio, was director of Mosfilm, and staged the plays Her Friend and On the Wedding Day by Viktor Rozov at the Moscow Gorky Academic Art Theatre. Uskov was a recipient of the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1983). He died on 24 August 2025, at the age of 92.
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• Name — Valery Uskov • Native Name — Валерий Усков • Birth Name — Valery Ivanovich Uskov • Born — 22 April 1933 • Birthplace — Sverdlovsk, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR • Died — 24 August 2025 • Years Active — 1963–2024 • Occupation — * Director • screenwriter • Relatives — Vladimir Krasnopolsky (second cousin)
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- 1.Свердловская киностудия празднует 65-летие со дня основания. PИА Новости. 2 February 2008.
- 2.Умер актер и режиссер Валерий Усков, снявший "Вечный зов". Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 24 August 2025.
- 3.Валерий Усков: "У Краснопольского — аппендицит, у меня — тоже". Vechernyaya Moskva. 16 December 2004.
- 4.Умер выдающийся режиссер, снявший популярный сериал «Вечный зов»: что известно о Валерии Ускове. ura.news.
- 5.Ушел из жизни кинорежиссер, член Союза кинематографистов России Валерий Усков (22.04.1933-24.08.2025). Союз кинематографистов Российской Федерации.
- 6.Умер народный артист РСФСР Валерий Усков. PИА Новости. 24 August 2025.
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