Nikolai Vikhirev was born on January 2, 1904 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a cinematographer, known for
Muzhestvo (1939),
The City That Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad (1943) and
Den pobedivshey strany (1948). He died on February 21, 1977 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].