Aleksandr Yankevskiy was born in 1902 in Yaransk, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire as Aleksandr Ivanovich Yankevskiy. He was an actor, known for Zhivyot na svete zhenshchina (1959) and Zhizn Galileya (1965). He died in 1978 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR.