Faina Gaenko was born on 8 November 1900 in Kakhovka, Dneprovsk uyezd, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kherson Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Nazar Stodolya (1955). He died on 6 January 1965 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine].