Recipient of both the Honored Art Worker of Ukraine in 2008, and the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in 1989.

For this reason, white people—Denikin's volunteer army, Kolchak, and gold seekers in general—had something in common despite their disparate political ideologies: they opposed Bolshevism.

It was evident from the moment he produced "1941" that the Communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were the two regimes that started World War II.

[4] For his significant personal contribution in honor of the victims of the Ukrainian people's genocide during the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, as well as his ascetic activities aimed at exposing the truth about the Holodomor, the director was named a Honored Art Worker of Ukraine in 2008.

He has won prizes at international cinema festivals held in Yugoslavia, Chicago, and Houston.