Nikolai Dorokhin was born on May 18, 1905 in Yelets, Yelets uyezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Yeletsky District, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Last Night (1937), Oshibka inzhenera Kochina (1939) and In the Far East (1937). He died on December 31, 1953 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].