Samuil Astanovski was born in Sebezh, Russia (USSR), 1915 to Shepshel Semyon and Sofia. He was a soldier and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Velikiye Luki, Russia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Samuil 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.