Acting

Ivan Mykolaichuk

Born 15 June 1941 · Chertoriya, Chernovitskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR · Died 3 August 1987 at 46

Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk (Ukrainian: Іван Васильович Миколайчук) was a Ukrainian soviet actor, producer, and screen writer from Ukraine. He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (Тіні забутих предків) (1964), based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's book of the same name. He received the Komsomol prize of Ukraine in 1967, and the title of Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1968. He posthumously received the Taras Shevchenko prize.