Wladimir Abramowitsch Rapoport

Vladimir Abramovich Rapoport (Russian: Владимир Абрамович Рапопорт ; 6 November 1907, Vitebsk – 17 June 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet cinematographer, known for his collaboration with film director Sergei Gerasimov.

Rapoport was born in Vitebsk as Vulf Abramovich Rapoport (Russian: Вульф Абрамович Рапопорт ).

He was married to actress Zoya Fyodorova from 1934 to 1939.

In 1943, while filming She Defends the Motherland, he met actress Lidiya Smirnova, with whom he began to live in cohabitation, sharing the apartment together in the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building.

He died in Moscow aged 67, and was buried at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery.