Fyodor Ishchenko was born on May 5, 1912 in village Vyazovok, Cherkasy uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire as Fyodor Vasilevich Ishchenko. He was an actor, known for Malakhov kurgan (1944), Ya - chernomorets! (1944) and Dorogoy tsenoy (1957). He died on September 6, 2001 in Kyiv, Ukraine.