Vadim Lysenko was born on January 28, 1933 in Krasnoe, Kushchevskiy rayon, Severo-Kavkazskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Krasnodarskiy kray, Russia]. He is a director and writer, known for Gorkie zyorna (1967), Wild Flowers (1980) and Posledniy god Berkuta (1978).