Odesa Film Festival winner killed near Avdiivka

Ukrainian film director, winner of the Odesa International Film Festival in 2016, Igor Malakhov, has been declared dead and will be buried on April 21.

This was reported by the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.

The director was identified by DNA, and before that he had been missing since December 29, 2023. He died in the fighting near Avdiivka near the village of Stepove. Igor Malakhov is a Ukrainian film director, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and historian. He would have turned 60 on May 26. He was born and raised in Kyiv. He studied at the Maxim Gorky Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute (now the Mykhailo Drahomanov National Pedagogical University) and the Gerasimov All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography.

In 1997-2000, he worked as the deputy director of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio for young cinema. In 2016, Malakhov's documentary Music Lessons won a prize at the Odesa Film Festival. Among his other works are His Own Destiny. A Dream, Odesa, 14 Utesova Street, The Voice of Donbass, How the War Began. Chronicles, Witnesses", "The World. Ukraine. Chernobyl".

Earlier, the oldest resident of Kilia in Odesa Oblast, poet Nina Chernobykina, died on April 18 at the age of 104. Volodymyr Teravsky, an honorary resident of the Artsyz community in Odesa Oblast, an honored surgeon and longtime employee of the Artsyz hospital, died on April 17 at the age of 90.

Кирило Бойко