Iosif Prut was born on November 18, 1900 in Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire as Iosif Leonidovich Prut. He was a writer, known for Za chas do rassveta (1973), God devyatnadtsatyy (1938) and Sekretar raykoma (1942). He died on July 16, 1996 in Brest, Belarus.