is the inventor of  the ‘Russian Arm.' His inventions have been so revolutionary that this talented  Ukrainian inventor received two Oscar awards in 2006 in the Scientific  and Engineering Award category – firstly, for the Russian Arm  gyro-stabilized camera crane and Flight Head, and secondly for the  Cascade series of motion picture cranes.  Following his graduation from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers in 1974, Kokush started his working career at Kiev‘s  state-run Dovzhenko Film Studios, before founding the Ukrainian film  and television company Filmotechnic in the 1990s.  In describing what inspired him to explore this field, Kokush noted  that his love for photography and cinema started when he was a child,  and his hobby became his livelihood. He described the process of  shooting a film in the mid-1970s as being very primitive, with the  camera operator having to look into the viewfinder of the equipment,  limiting his range of movements and vision. So, Kokush’s first goal was  to be able to remote-control the camera, but as he worked on that he  realized that the most important thing was to stabilize the camera to  prevent it from shaking no matter what the external conditions may be –  and so he successfully invented a stabilizing head for cameras. After  that, camera cranes of different sizes, lengths and applications were  developed, allowing film footage to be shot from a car roof, train,  motor boat, or helicopter, meeting the needs of whatever the scene  required. Although the so-called  ‘Russian Arm’ is a fully Ukrainian invention, and is actually called  ‘Autorobot’, it has been unable to shake the nick-name given to it in Hollywood in the early nineties and this is now unofficially accepted as  its name. The Russian Arm was the first of its kind robotic and mobile  camera remote crane system. This innovative technology opened up a  world of possibilities to film directors for high-speed action shots  that puts the audience in the thick of the chase.