Semyon Sher
- Camera and Electrical Department
Soviet front line cameraman, born 1908 in Tula, Tula province, Russian Empire - February 1942 (disappeared); according to other sources, he was killed in action). Studied 1928 - 1931 at the Moscow Film Factory 'Sovkino' / 'Soyuzkino'. In 1931 - 1933 - in the Red Army. He graduated from flight school and served as a fighter pilot in heavy aviation. Since 1933 - operator of the Moscow Film Factory 'Soyuzkinokhroniki'. He specialized in aerial filming. Arrested by the NKVD on October 15, 1935, and sentenced January 31, 1936 on charges of negligence ('allowed the theft of a secret film') to three years of exile in Tashkent. In exile he worked at a local film studio. He was rehabilitated in 1992. From October 1939 - assistant cameraman at the Soyuzdetfilm film studio. Front-line cameraman during the Great Patriotic War (WW2). November 1941 - February 1942 - operator of the film group of the Western Front; also was in the film group of the North-Western Front. Probably KIA or MIA in battle in the Lychkovo station of the Leningrad (since 1944 - Novgorod) region (or disappeared in the village of Zabolotye of the Lychkovsky (now Demyansky) district of the Leningrad region) in March 1942 during the "Demyansk" airborne brigade's landing operations.