"Vadim Valentinovich Alisov is gone," TASS quotes a message from the VGIK press service.

There he was since 2002, he was a professor of the department of cinematography.

Vadim Alisov was born in 1941 in Kiev.

Since 1958, he worked at the Mosfilm film studio as an assistant cameraman, later, in 1977, he graduated from the camera department of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography.

Alisov was the operator of many of Eldar Ryazanov's films, in which he began working as an assistant operator ("Zigzag of Fortune"), the second operator ("Garage") and continued as a lead operator ("Station for Two", "Cruel Romance", "Forgotten Melody for flute "," Dear Elena Sergeevna ").

He also collaborated with Vladimir Menshov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Gaidai and other filmmakers.