Vadim Ilyenko was born on July 3, 1932 in Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Zozulya s diplomom (1972), Vozvrashchenie Veroniki (1964) and Gelli i Nok (1995). He died on May 8, 2015.