Vladimir Sinelnikov was born on November 29, 1937 in Moscow, USSR as Vladimir Lvovich Kaplan. He was a director and producer, known for Kolokol Chernobylya (1987) and Posledniy mif (1999). He was married to Elena Kolesnichenko and Liudmyla Sinelnikova. He died on October 28, 2018 in Moscow, Russia.