{{Short description|Russian film and television director (1933–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Valery Uskov | native_name = Валерий Усков | native_name_lang = ru | image = Valery Uskov.webp | birth_name = Valery Ivanovich Uskov | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|04|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Sverdlovsk, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|08|24|1933|04|22|df=y}} | death_place = | years_active = 1963–2024 | occupation = {{hlist|Director|screenwriter}} | relatives = Vladimir Krasnopolsky (second cousin) }}

'''Valery Ivanovich Uskov''' ({{langx|ru|Вале́рий Ива́нович Уско́в}}; 22 April 1933 – 24 August 2025) was a Russian film and television director and screenwriter. He was known for directing the films ''The Slowest Train'' (1963),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/20080207/98650033.html|title=Свердловская киностудия празднует 65-летие со дня основания|work=PИА Новости|date=2 February 2008|access-date=24 August 2025|language=Russian}}</ref> ''Stewardess'' (1967) and ''Not Under the Jurisdiction'' (1969), as well as episodes of the historical television series ''Eternal Call''.<ref name=Uskov>{{Cite web|url=https://rg.ru/2025/08/24/umer-akter-i-rezhisser-valerij-uskov-sniavshij-vechnyj-zov.html|title=Умер актер и режиссер Валерий Усков, снявший "Вечный зов"|work=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|date=24 August 2025|access-date=24 August 2025|language=Russian}}</ref> He directed almost all of his films alongside his second cousin, Vladimir Krasnopolsky.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=16 December 2004|title=Валерий Усков: "У Краснопольского — аппендицит, у меня — тоже"|trans-title= |url=http://www.vm.ru/news/2004/12/16/valerij-uskov-u-krasnopolskogo-appenditsit-u-menya-tozhe-5914.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109155553/http://www.vm.ru/news/2004/12/16/valerij-uskov-u-krasnopolskogo-appenditsit-u-menya-tozhe-5914.html|archivedate=9 November 2014|language=Russian|work=Vechernyaya Moskva|location= |access-date=24 September 2022}}</ref> The two separated in 2016.

Uskov graduated from Ural State University in 1955,<ref name=Valeriy>{{Cite web|url=https://ura.news/news/1052985072|title=Умер выдающийся режиссер, снявший популярный сериал «Вечный зов»: что известно о Валерии Ускове|website=ura.news|access-date=24 August 2025|language=Russian}}</ref> and from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1961.<ref name=Uskov/> He worked at Sverdlovsk Film Studio, was director of Mosfilm, and staged the plays ''Her Friend'' and ''On the Wedding Day'' by Viktor Rozov at the Moscow Gorky Academic Art Theatre.<ref name=Valeriy/>

Uskov was a recipient of the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1983). He died on 24 August 2025, at the age of 92.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://unikino.ru/%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB-%D0%B8%D0%B7-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80-%D1%87%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%8E%D0%B7%D0%B0-2/|title=Ушел из жизни кинорежиссер, член Союза кинематографистов России Валерий Усков (22.04.1933-24.08.2025)|work=Союз кинематографистов Российской Федерации|access-date=24 August 2025|language=Russian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/20250824/uskov-2037321601.html|title=Умер народный артист РСФСР Валерий Усков|work=PИА Новости|date=24 August 2025|access-date=24 August 2025|language=Russian}}</ref>

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