Vyacheslav Gordanov was born on July 28, 1902 in Polotsk, Polotsk uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Polatsk, Polatsk Raion, Vitebsk Region, Belarus]. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Entschleierte Geheimnisse (1949), Plotina (1932) and Adres Lenina (1929). He died on November 18, 1983.