Burt Boris Davydovich
Cinematographer. Honored Worker of Culture of the Kyrgyz SSR (1969). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1930. Born on July 3, 1905, in the city of Feodosia, into a working-class family. He began his labor activity at the age of 14, working as an electrician and electrical technician in the theater of Feodosia. From 1925, he worked as an electrician and tram driver in Moscow at the Rusakovsky tram depot. In 1930, he was sent by the Sokolnicheskaya District Party Committee to study at the State Institute of Cinematography in the cinematography department, graduating in 1935. Since 1932, Burt worked as an assistant operator at the "Soyuzkinokhronika" factory, and from 1935 at the Moscow Chronicle Studio, where he independently filmed hundreds of stories for the magazine "News of the Day" over 13 years, participating in the creation of such interesting films as "In the Name of Lenin," "Pasha Angelina," "There is a Metro," "Our Gorky," and "The Day of the New World."
From 1941 to 1945, he was a front-line cinematographer, filming the actions of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, on the Volkhov, Leningrad (and the A. Lebedev group), IV Ukrainian, and I Belorussian fronts, participating in the capture of Berlin, and as a line officer, in the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army in the Far East. After demobilization, from 1946, Burt worked as a chronicler operator at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio.
In April 1958, he moved to the Frunze Studio of feature and documentary films. Over 16 years of work (1958–1974), he filmed hundreds of stories for local and union screens about the growth and achievements of the national economy of Kyrgyzstan.
As a director-cinematographer, Burt released essays such as "Thoughts of a Shepherd" (1959), "First on the Cascade" (1960), "Overlapping of Naryn" (1961), "Spring of Ala-Too" (1963), "100 Years of Kyrgyzstan's Entry into Russia," "At the Edge of the Ice" (both in 1964), "Through Kyrgyzstan" (1966), "Everyday Life of the Police" (1966), "Moth" (1967), and several others.
Awards include the Order of the Red Star (1944), Orders of the Patriotic War I and II class (1945, 1946), the badge "Excellence in Soviet Cinematography" (1960), and eight Certificates of Honor from the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR (1970–1978).
Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR since 1962.