Leonid Lukov was born on 2 May 1909 in Mariupol, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for A Great Life (1939), Miners of the Don (1951) and To A New Shore (1955). He died on 24 April 1963 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
