Nikolai Svobodin was born on May 20, 1898 in village Uzmore, Novouzensk uyezd, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire as Nikolay Kapitonovich Pechkin. He was an actor, known for Vysokaya nagrada (1939), Lenin v oktyabre (1937) and Matros s Komety (1958). He died on September 20, 1965 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.