Nikolay Mashchenko was born on January 12, 1929 in Melovatka, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Komisary (1971), Khochu verit (1965) and Mama, rodnaya, lyubimaya... (1987). He died on May 2, 2013 in Kyiv, Ukraine.