Arkadi Rajkin，Arkadi Isaakovich Rajkin was born on October 24, 1911, in Riga, Russian Empire (now Riga, Latvia). His father, named Isaak Raikin, worked at the Riga sea port. In 1922 his family moved to Petrograd (now St. Petersburg, Russia). There young Rajkin took his first acting lessons at the local drama club.