Grigori Chukhrai

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1921-2001)

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Lived 1921–2001, aged 80

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Era
1921–2001
Aged 80
Awards
36
recognised works

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Updated 2026-06-25

Grigory Naumovich Chukhray was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). He's the father of the Russian film director Pavel Chukhray.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
People's Artist of the USSR
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Star
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Lenin Prize
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film
Targa d'Oro
Nika Lifetime Achievement Award
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Zhukov Medal
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Order of the Partisan Star
Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941
Order of Labour
Wound stripe
Prize of the President of the Russian Federation
Badge "25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"
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Special Jury Prize
Nika Award