Valeriy Fedosov was born on June 25, 1941 in Staroe Selo, Gomelskaya oblast, Belorusskaya SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He was a cinematographer, known for Zwanzig Tage ohne Krieg (1977), Jaroslawna, Königin von Frankreich (1979) and Levsha (1987). He died on June 5, 1990 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Tajikistan].