Anatoliy Kokush

Ukrainian inventor and film executive

Anatoliy Akymovych Kokush (Ukrainian: Анатолій Акимович Кокуш; born 25 May 1951) is a Ukrainian Krymchak film engineer, businessman, and inventor. In the 1990s, he developed a gyro-stabilized car-mounted camera crane known as a U-Crane.2

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Born 1951.1

About

In 2005, he was awarded two Academy Awards. The awards were in the Scientific and Engineering Award category: one was awarded "for the concept and development of the Russian Arm gyro-stabilized camera crane and the Flight Head"; the other was awarded "for the concept and development of the Cascade series of motion picture cranes". Kokush has also been recognized by Ukraine's then First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko for his contributions to Ukrainian cinema and around the world.

Kokush graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers in 1974. He then started working for Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. He was born in Kerch.

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Companies

Career

Occupation: engineer, film actor.4

Personal life

  • Born1951, Kerch5
  • CitizenshipSoviet Union6

Awards

  • 2006Scientific and Engineering Award7 8