Kopotev Veniamin Nikolaevich
Sound engineer. Born on August 18, 1910, in the city of Sverdlovsk to a working-class family, he died in 1975 in the city of Frunze. After graduating from high school in Chita, he worked from 1926 to 1928 as a courier for the "Rabochaya Gazeta" expedition in Izhevsk and as a laborer at a weapons factory. From 1928 to 1931, he studied at the Chita Veterinary Technical School. Then, for two years, V. Kopotev worked as a technician-epizootiologist in the Mongolian People's Republic. After serving in the army from 1933 to 1935, he returned as a technician-epizootiologist in the Stalin District Department of Moscow. From 1936 to 1937, he headed the biopreparations department of the regional veterinary supply in Voronezh.
V. Kopotev entered the film industry as a mature man with a wealth of life experience. From 1938 to 1940, he studied at the Voronezh Film Technical School. In 1939-1940, he worked as a senior master in the quality control department of a film workshop, and from 1940 to 1942, he served as a master of equipment and assistant operator at a newsreel studio.
From 1942 to 1944, V. Kopotev was a correspondent for the Penza point of the Kuibyshev newsreel studio. At the end of 1944, he was appointed head of the sound department and sound engineer at the Frunze newsreel studio. V. Kopotev accomplished significant work in equipping the young studio. Over a quarter of a century of tireless work there, he became a recognized highly qualified sound engineer.
V. Kopotev was responsible for the sound recording of the film "Soviet Kyrgyzstan" (1947, directed by M. Slutsky), the essay "Kyrgyzstan Sings" (1957), and one of the first Kyrgyz feature films — "The Girl of Tian Shan" (1961) by A. Ochkina.
He worked extensively and fruitfully in newsreels and dubbing films into the Kyrgyz language. He recorded about 500 issues of the magazine "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," more than 130 feature films, such as "The Forty-First," "Pavel Korchagin," "The Village Doctor," "Quiet Don" (2 series), "Alyoshkina Love," "Two Lives," and others.
Awards — medals "For Victory over Germany" (1946), "For Valorous Labor" (1947). Certificate of the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR (1946).
Member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers since 1962.