Arkadiy Mindich was born in Mokraya Kaligorka, Ukraine (USSR), 1920 to Beni and Sura Yenta. He was a pilot. Prior to WWII he lived in Cherkassy, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Cherkassy, Ukraine (USSR). Arkadiy was killed in military service in WWII.
Large numbers of Jewish soldiers serving in the Allied military forces, many of them in the Soviet army, were killed in combat or died of battle wounds.