Mikhail Vysotsky was born on November 18, 1885 in Nedra, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Nedra, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Goldener Sommer (1951), Shumi, gorodok (1940) and Auf weiter Fahrt (1946). He died on October 6, 1950 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine].