Gennadi Karyakin was born on September 20, 1927 in village Nikolaevka, Syzran uyezd, Ulyanovsk Governorate, RSFSR, USSR as Gennadiy Ivanovich Karyakin. He was an actor, known for Tikhiy Don (1957), Tikhiy Don II (1958) and Ryadovoy Aleksandr Matrosov (1948). He died on June 9, 1972.