Yuri Klimenko

{{short description|Russian camera operator}}

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| name = Yuri Klimenko

| birthname = Yuri Viktorovich Klimenko

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|3|24}}

| birth_place = Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR

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| occupation = cinematographer

| years active = 1973–present

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}}Yuri Viktorovich Klimenko (Russian: Ю́рий Ви́кторович Климе́нко; born March 24, 1944, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Soviet and Ukrainian cinematographer and photographer, laureate of State Prize (2000),[https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Указ_Президента_РФ_от_06.06.2001_№_654 Presidential Decree of June 6, 2001 № 654 On awarding the State prizes of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art in 2000] a sixfold winner of the Nika Award (1999, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2019).Victor Matizen. [http://kinopressa.ru/2015/02/кит-с-шестью-слонами/ Кит с шестью слонами]

He worked with such directors as Stanislav Govorukhin, Georgiy Daneliya, Sergei Solovyov, Alexei Uchitel, [[Aleksei Yuryevich German|

Aleksei German Sr.]], Sergei Paradjanov.[http://2011.russiancinema.ru/index.php?e_dept_id=1&e_person_id=432 Юрий Клименко в Энциклопедии отечественного кино]