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name: "Sergey Urusevsky"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sergei-urusevsky"
fi1m_id: "sergei-urusevsky"
imdb_id: "nm0882201"
tmdb_id: 108771
wikidata_id: "Q182765"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "10 December 1908"
died: "12 October 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:09:47.853545+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Sergey Urusevsky

## Identity

Sergey Urusevsky

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sergei-urusevsky
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sergei-urusevsky
- **IMDb ID:** nm0882201
- **TMDB ID:** 108771
- **Wikidata ID:** Q182765
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Urusevsky, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182765, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882201/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108771

Cinematographer. Born 10 December 1908 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. Died 12 October 1974.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 10 December 1908, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
- **Died:** 12 October 1974
- **Also known as:** Sergei Urusevsky, С. Урусевский, Сергей Павлович Урусевский
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Urusevsky, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182765, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882201/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108771

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Cranes Are Flying*](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md) (87)

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## Biography

Sergey Pavlovich Urusevsky was a Soviet cinematographer and film director. He trained in graphic design and photography, graduating from the Leningrad Art Industrial High School in 1929 and the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1937. During the Second World War he worked as a frontline cameraman.

Urusevsky is best known for his collaborations with director Mikhail Kalatozov on *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), *Letter Never Sent* (1960) and *I Am Cuba* (1964). He also shot *The Forty-First* (1956) for Grigoriy Chukhray. Later he directed two features: *Beg inokhodtsa* (1969) and *Sing Your Song, Poet* (1973). He died in Moscow in 1974.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), Fi1m 87, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sing a Song, Poet* (1973), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- *Goodbye, Gyulsary!* (1969), Director, Director of Photography, Writer
- *I Am Cuba* (1964), Director of Photography
- *Letter Never Sent* (1960), Director of Photography
- *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), Director of Photography — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md)
- *The Forty-First* (1956), Director of Photography
- *The First Echelon* (1955), Director of Photography
- *The Lesson of Life* (1955), Director of Photography
- *The Return of Vasili Bortnikov* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Dream of a Cossack* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Alitet Leaves for the Hills* (1949), Director of Photography
- *The Village Teacher* (1947), Director of Photography
- *Sinegoriya* (1946), Director of Photography
- *Military Secret* (1945), Director of Photography
- *Ukraine in Flames* (1943), Director of Photography
- *Naval Scouts* (1943), Director, Director of Photography
- *The 69th Parallel* (1942), Camera Operator
- *How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich* (1941), Camera Operator
- *The Disappearance of "Eagle"* (1941), Camera Operator

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