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Soviet film director and screenwriter

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Naumovich and the family name is Chukhray.

Grigory Naumovich Chukhray^[a] (23 May 1921 – 28 October 2001) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin.^[1]People's Artist of the USSR (1981).^[2] He's the father of the Russian film director Pavel Chukhray.

Early life

Grigory Chukhray was born in Melitopol (modern-day Zaporizhzhia Oblast of Ukraine) to Red Army soldiers Naum Zinovievich Rubanov and Claudia Petrovna Chukhray.

Grigori Naumovich Chukhrai (1921-2001) - Find a Grave

He was of Ukrainian origin.^[3][4] His parents divorced when he was three years old. He was raised by a stepfather, Pavel Antonovich Litvinenko, the head of kolkhoz. His mother Claudia Chukhray took an active part in the collectivization and dekulakization of the Ukrainian SSR, then worked as an investigation officer at militsiya.^{[ A Balada do Soldado – Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre SYR}