Naum Aptekman was born on September 9, 1893 in Cherkasy, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Cherkasy, Ukraine]. He was a cinematographer, known for Kastus Kalinovskiy (1928), Konnitsa skachet (1929) and Katerina Izmailova (1927). He died on July 22, 1960 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].