Mikhail Svetin was born on December 11, 1930 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine] as Mikhail Solomonovich Goltsman. He was an actor, known for Sirano de Berzherak (1989), 12 stulev (1977) and Zolotoy telyonok (2006). He was married to Proskurnina Bronislav. He died on August 30, 2015 in Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.