Les Tanyuk
Les Tanyuk | |
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Лесь Танюк | |
Official portrait, 1990 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 15 May 1990 – 23 November 2007 | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 August 1938 Zhukyn, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 18 March 2016 (aged 77) |
| Party | People's Movement of Ukraine |
| Other political affiliations | Our Ukraine Bloc |
| Alma mater | National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kyiv |
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Leonid Stepanovych Tanyuk (also spelled Taniuk; Ukrainian: Леонід Степанович Танюк; 7 August 1938 – 18 March 2016) was a Ukrainian theatre and film director, Soviet dissident and politician. A founder of the Artistic Youths' Club in Kyiv in the early 1960s, he served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2007—representing Kyiv, Drohobych and Ukraine's 166th electoral district for the People's Movement of Ukraine before later being elected on the proportional list of the Our Ukraine Bloc. He died on 18 March 2016.
He was married to Nelli Korniyenko, a native of Khabarovsk and a Merited Worker of Arts of Ukraine.