Mikhail Shneiderov was born on November 18, 1915 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]. Mikhail was a cinematographer, known for
Moscow Strikes Back (1942),
The Fall of Berlin (1945) and
Velikoye proshchaniye (1953). Mikhail died on December 15, 1985 in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia].