Yosyp Tymchenko was born on April 26, 1852 in Okip, Kharkiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. Yosyp was a director and cinematographer, known for
Skachuschiy vsadnik (1893) and
Kopemetatel (1893). Yosyp died on May 20, 1924 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union [now Ukraine].