Les Tanyuk

Les Tanyuk
Лесь Танюк
Tanyuk in 2011
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
15 May 1990 – 23 November 2007
Preceded by
  • Position established (1990)
  • Roman Ivanychuk and Yevhen Hryniv (1994)
  • Constituency established (1998)
Succeeded by
  • Constituency abolished (1994, 1998)
  • Ivan Stoiko (2002)
Constituency
  • Kyiv, Vatutinskyi District (1990–1994)
  • Lviv Oblast, Drohobych (1994–1998)
  • Ternopil Oblast, No. 166 (1998–2002)
  • Our Ukraine Bloc, No. 12 (2002–2006)
  • Our Ukraine Bloc, No. 14 (2006–2007)
Personal details
Born
Leonid Stepanovych Tanyuk

(1938-08-07)7 August 1938
Zhukyn, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died18 March 2016(2016-03-18) (aged 77)
Political partyPeople's Movement of Ukraine
Other political
affiliations		Our Ukraine Bloc
Alma materNational University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kyiv

Leonid (Les) Stepanovych Tanyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід (Лесь) Танюк, August 7, 1938 – March 18, 2016) was a Ukrainian theatre and movie director. He was a dissident and the head of the Club of Creative Youth. After 1991's Ukrainian independence Tanyuk became a multiple re-elected member of the Ukrainian parliament.[1]

Tanyuk died on March 18, 2016 in Kyiv, Ukraine from stomach cancer at the age of 77.[2]

References

  1. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Died outstanding director and politician Les Tanyuk, Segodnya (March 18, 2016)
  2. ↑ National artist of Ukraine Les Taniuk dies, Interfax-Ukraine (March 18, 2016)


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