Dmitri Pokras was born on November 7, 1899 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire as Dmitriy Yakovlevich Pokrass. He was a composer, known for Traktoristy (1939), If War Comes Tomorrow (1938) and Devushka s kharakterom (1939). He died on December 20, 1978 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.