Biography

Boris Vakar was born in 1914 in Kashira, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire [now Moscow oblast, Russia]. He was a cinematographer, known for The City That Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad (1943), Ukraine in Flames (1943) and Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoy Ukraine i izgnanie nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predely ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel (1945). He died on September 19, 1943 in Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].