Background
BYKOV, Nikolay was born on December 31, 1909.
BYKOV, Nikolay was born on December 31, 1909.
Studied at Kiev Institute of Cinematography.
1929 began working as film critic, then became a cameraman at Kiev Studios for People's Sciences Films. During World War 2 filmed with frontline documentary unit, accompanying partisans behind the lines. Worked on Dovzhenko’s film Osvobozhdeniye (liberation) about the annexation of the Western Ukraine.
Worfts: contributions to Kinoletopis’ Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyny (Film Chronicle of the Great Fatherland War) and Narodnyye mstiteli (Avengers of the People). Popular sci film Parazitologiya (Parasitology) (1931). Series Bor’ba s avariynost’yu (Accident Prevention) (1932-1937).
Training films Teoriya polyota (The Theory of Flight) (1939). Desantirovaniye vozdushnykh voysk (Paratroop Drops). Parashyut (The Parachute).
Tarannyy udar (Frontal Assault), et cetera
Communist Party member from 1943.