Documentary filmmaker Vakhtang Mikeladze has died at the age of 87.

Documentary filmmaker Vakhtang Mikeladze died at the age of 88. This was announced on March 6 by the press service of the Sintez-Integra film company, with which the director collaborated.

"Vakhtang Evgenievich Mikeladze, a documentary filmmaker, winner of the USSR State Prize, who worked with our film company in recent years, has died," the Telegram channel noted.

The causes of the director's death are not specified.

Vakhtang Mikeladze was born on June 16, 1937 in Moscow. In 1965, he received a degree in documentary filmmaking. Mikeladze participated in the creation of the program "Man and the Law", and was also the director of the programs "Documentary detective" and "Detective Stories".

He was awarded the XXVI Leipzig Film Festival Prize for the documentary "Grey Flowers." In addition, Mikeladze worked in Tbilisi at the studio of popular science and documentary films.