Isaak Barkan was born in Logoysk, Belorussia (USSR), 1916 to Mikhel and Lea nee Baskina. He was a teacher and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Logoysk, Belorussia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Isaak was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: unknown, 1941.
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.