Valery Ponomaryov was born on May 27, 1943 in Yurga, Kemerovo Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Na Chernykh Lyadakh (1995), Delo dlya nastoyashchikh muzhchin (1983) and Amnistiya (1982). He died on January 8, 2017.