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Turkmenistan

Filmmaker · Turkmenistan

Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov

Died in 1965

Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov was born on 4 March 1892 in Kostroma. Trained from 1911 to 1915 in an art school, he was a theatre and then film designer and directed Goskino's production from 1918 to 1924, before moving into directing. In 1938 he settled at the Ashgabat studio, of which he became artistic director in 1945, and there trained Turkmen filmmakers and actors. A Stalin Prize winner, he died on 18 May 1965 in Moscow.

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