Arkadi Reznikov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (USSR), 1907 to Naum. Prior to WWII he lived in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Arkadi was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Alma Ata, Kazakhstan (USSR), 1945.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.