[1] Shipenko was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia).

For a short time, he worked on Channel One and was the director of the Plantain program about cars.

The film received wide attention due to an intimate scene featuring Ivan Yankovsky and Kristina Asmus.

[6] In 2021, Shipenko shot portions of a science fiction film aboard the International Space Station.

The Challenge was in a race with Tom Cruise and Doug Liman to shoot the first narrative feature film in space[note 1].