Ilya Petrovich Kopalin (1900-1976) was a Russian film director
remembered for his documentaries. His most famous footage is that of
Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and that of
Yuri Gargarin's space flight.He was born the son of a peasant on 2
August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya, Zvenigorod on the outskirts
of Moscow. In his youth he worked in a factory in Moscow. After
October 1917 he trained first as a land surveyor then as a pilot. A
chance meeting with Dziga Vertov led him instantly into an interest in
the cinema. Aged 24 he went to work for Vertov as a camera-man,
working on films such as Kinoglaz, but later would work independently.
His early films look at country life and agriculture in the newly
created USSR.His work gained him six Stalin Prizes and the Order of
Lenin. He died in Moscow on 12 June 1976. Ilya Kopalin Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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