Nikolai Bratersky was born on December 24, 1898 in Kyiv, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Raduga (1944), Mitka Lelyuk (1938) and Dzhalma (1929). He died on July 7, 1956 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine].