Les Serdjuk

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Serdyuk (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Сердю́к ), also known as Les Serdyuk (Ukrainian: Лесь Сердюк ); 14 October 1940 – 26 May 2010) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996).

Born into a family of People's Artist of the USSR Aleksandr Ivanovich Serdyuk. In 1961 he graduated from Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts.

From 1961 to 1964 years, he was an actor of the Taras Shevchenko Kharkiv Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre. He was subsequently an actor at the Riga Youth Theatre for an additional two years before joining the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. In 1970, he began working with Dovzhenko Film Studios.

In 2008, after a 37-year break, he returned to the stage as part of the troupe Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater.

He passed away on May 26, 2010, at the age of 69 in Kyiv due to lung cancer, which was diagnosed in the actor in the spring of 2009. He underwent chemotherapy treatment in Kyiv, but it was unsuccessful. He was buried on May 28 at Baikove Cemetery.