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name: "Leonid Kalashnikov"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "19 September 1926"
died: "7 November 2005"
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updated: "2026-09-16T10:40:03.039427+00:00"
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# Leonid Kalashnikov

Cinematographer. Born 19 September 1926 in Krasnodar, Severo-Kavkazskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Krasnodarskiy kray, Russia]. Died 7 November 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 19 September 1926, Krasnodar, Severo-Kavkazskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Krasnodarskiy kray, Russia]
- **Died:** 7 November 2005
- **Also known as:** Leonid Ivanovich Kalashnikov, Л. Калашников, L. Kalashnikov

## Biography

Leonid Kalashnikov was a Soviet and Russian cinematographer. Born in Krasnodar in 1926, he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1958 and joined Mosfilm in 1964.

He worked as director of photography on films including *The Red Tent* (1969), *Stalker* (1979) and *Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin* (1981). Kalashnikov received the State Prize of the USSR in 1977 and was named Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in 1983. He died in Moscow in 2005.

*Sources: ru.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stalker* (1979), Fi1m 86, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/stalker.md)

## Also known for

- *The Red Tent* (1969), Director of Photography
- *Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin* (1981), Director of Photography

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