| Lyudmila Stanukinas | |
| Birth Name: | Lyudmila Igorevna Stanukinas |
| Birth Date: | 25 November 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality: | Kazakhstani |
| Occupation: | Documentary filmmaker |
Lyudmila Igorevna Stanukinas (Russian: Людмила Игоревна Станукинас; 25 November 1930 – 8 July 2020) was a Soviet documentary filmmaker.[1] [2] She was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989).[3] She was member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. Stanukinas died on 8 July 2020 in Israel.[1] [2]
Having previously worked for the company "Lenfilm" in the 1950's, Stanukinas had first gone to a film university, but instead graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in English. Despite this, her focus remained on film and she joined the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio in 1958.[4]