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Riabokrys Oleksandr Mykhailovych (Ukrainian: Олександр Михайлович Рябокрис) (born June 1, 1952) is a current director of the documentary film department of the National Television Company of Ukraine, and laureate of the Vasyl Stus Prize. ^[1]

Born in 1952 in the mining city of Krasnoarmiysk into a surveying and bookkeeping family, he graduated from the Donetsk Polytechnic institute as an engineer of Industrial control systems, and from Saint Petersburg State University of Cinema and television as a director.

The first of his works was a film about the haidamaka-movement.^[2] Among another films are:

• Sandarmokh ^[3]
• Ukrainians from Kolyma
• academic Mykhailo Kravchuk Calvary ^[4]
• Man of Will (about Mykhailo Soroka) ^[5]
• The Miroslav Simchich war ^[6]
• Free Cossacks (the liberation movement in 1918-1922 in Kholodny Yar)
• Sergei Korolev" ^[7]
• Opening Sky (the development of aviation in Ukraine ) ^[8]
• The Great Game (about the Ukrainian scouts organisation, Plast)^[9]