Nathan Zarkhi was born in 1900 in Orsha, Mogilev Governorate, Belarus, Russian Empire as Isaak Abramovich Gurevich. He was a writer and actor, known for Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927), Mat (1926) and Pobeda (1938). He died on July 17, 1935 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].