Writing · Director · Screenplay
Born Aug 7, 1938 · Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Active 1969–2016 · Awards: Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, People's Artist of Ukraine, Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class, Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class
Leonid Stepanovych Tanyuk 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…