Afanasi Kochetkov was born on March 9, 1930 in Balakhonovka, Samara province, Soviet Union as Afanasi Ivanovich Kochetkov. He was an actor, known for Nad Tissoy (1958), Oleksa Dovbush (1959) and Mumu (1959). He died on June 24, 2004 in Moscow, Russia.