- Brother of Boris Kaufman.
- The pseudonym "Dziga Vertov" literally translates as "spinning, turning". The artist adopted this moniker whilst experimenting with film and audio recordings in the mid-1910s, and kept it for the rest of his career.
- Born in Bialystok, Poland, studied music and enrolled in St. Petersburg Neurological Institute in 1916. Worked on first Soviet newsreel, Kinonedelia (1918-1919), then on subsequent newsreel series (inc. Kinopravda, 1922-1925).
- Brother of Mikhail Kaufman.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1122-1125. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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