Dmitri Pokras was born on November 7, 1899 in Kyiv, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]. He was a composer, known for Yesli zavtra voyna (1938), Duma pro kazaka Golotu (1937) and Junges Leben (Traktoristen) (1939). He died on December 20, 1978 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].