Documentary on Igor Kon wins Artdocfest prize ^{CEFR A2}

A new documentary about Igor Kon won the best director prize at Artdocfest in March 2025. The film was made by the Berlin-based studio Narra and the independent journalist cooperative Bereg, and it was released on Meduza's YouTube channel.

Igor Kon was born in Saint Petersburg and lived with his mother. He survived evacuation in the Siege of Leningrad. At 15 he began studying history at a university in Chuvashiya and later continued his studies in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) after he returned.

Kon worked in the social sciences during the Soviet era and sometimes had no steady job. He became known in the mid-1980s as the first Soviet sexologist and later worked on AIDS policy. He died in 2011.