Leonid Sikoruk (Creator)

Leonid Leonidovich Sikoruk - Soviet and Russian director of non-fiction films, cameraman, popularizer of science, author of educational literature. Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation (1996). In the period 1954-1957 he studied at the Novosibirsk Civil Engineering Institute named after V.V. Kuibyshev, worked there as a film laboratory assistant. Having taken a great interest in cinema, in 1958 he went to work for the Novosibirsk television studio, starting with a correspondent. He acted as a cameraman, shooting several films at the newly formed NovosibirskTelefilm studio. He entered the correspondence department of the camera department of VGIK, from which he graduated in 1968. In the 1970s, he created a series of television programs "Physics for Kids" at the studio. In 1973, he organized the D. D. Maksutov Telescope Building Club. Became the initiator of the start of industrial production of TAL telescopes at the Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant. Leonid Sikoruk is...Read More