Grigory Chukhray
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| Born |
Grigory Naumovich Chukhrai 23 May 1921 Melitopol, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Died | 29 October 2001 (aged 80) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1956-1984 |
Grigory Naumovich Chukhray (Russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й, Ukrainian: Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 29 October 2001) was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1981). He was the father of the Russian film director Pavel Chukhrai.
Grigory Chukhrai was born in Melitopol (modern-day Zaporizhia Oblast of Ukraine) to Red Army soldiers Naum Zinovievich Rubanov and Claudia Petrovna Chuchrai. He was of Ukrainian origin. His parents divorced when he was three years old. He was raised by a stepfather, Pavel Antonovich Litvinenko, the head of kolkhoz. His mother Claudia Chuchrai took an active part in the collectivization and dekulakization of the Ukrainian SSR, then worked as an investigation officer at militsiya.
In 1939 he was drafted to the army. A decorated veteran of World War II, Chukhrai's wartime experiences profoundly affected him and the majority of his films. He served in the 229th separate communications battalion of the 134th Infantry Division (later part of the 19th Army). He fought at the Southern, Stalingrad and Don Fronts. From 1943 on, he served in airborne troops at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts and took part in operation "Dnipro Troopers". He was wounded three times. In 1944 he joined the Communist Party.
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