Sergey Gerasimovich Mikaelyan (Russian: Серге́й Гера́симович Микаэля́н; 1 November 1923 – 10 December 2016)[1] was a Soviet film director and winner of the USSR State Prize (1976).

[3][4] In 2015 he published a novella titled "Not Killed at Rzhev" (Russian: Не убит подо Ржевом) about his experiences in the war.

[5][6] In 1951 he graduated from the directing department of GITIS (workshop of Boris Zakhava, Maria Knebel, A. Popov), and then, in 1959, the director's course at the Mosfilm.

[7] Sergey Mikaelyan staged performances in the Saratov, Gorky, Moscow, and Leningrad theaters.

He also worked as the chief director of the Tashkent Russian Theatre named after M. Gorky (1954-1956).