Volf (Wolf) Boris Grigoryevich (June 1896, Odessa, Ukraine – 1993(4), Moscow) — organiser of film distribution and production, member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR.

Boris Volf was born into the family of a well-known Moscow lawyer. In 1915, he graduated from the Flerov Gymnasium in Moscow and began working at the Moscow office of the Prometheus trading house, founded by his relatives to develop the film industry. From 1916 to 1919, he served as head of distribution and later headed the office. In 1916, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Moscow University (now Lomonosov Moscow State University), which he left in his second year, and in 1919, he entered the Faculty of Economics at the Kiev Commercial Institute (now Kyiv National Economic University), where he studied up to the third year.

In 1919, he was executive manager of the All-Ukrainian Photo and Cinema Committee in Kiev. From April to November 1920, he was head of the film school under the People's Commissariat for Education in Odessa; afterwards, until 20 January 1921, he served as head of the cultural department of Kotovsky's cavalry brigade in the active army. From March to July 1921, he was administrator and deputy head of the organisational department of the All-Russian Photo and Cinema Committee in Moscow.

Subsequently, until 1942, Boris Volf held various administrative and managerial posts in Moscow-based organisations. From 1942 to 1944, he was evacuated to Yerevan, where he served as deputy director of Glavkinoprokat, and later as a film director at the Yerevan Film Studio (now “Hayfilm”). From 1944 to 1948, he worked as a film director at the Soyuzmultfilm Studio in Moscow, participating in the creation of such animated films as Quartet (1947), The Humpbacked Horse (1947), The Soldier’s Tale (1948), and The Elephant and the Ant (1948). In 1949, he was film director at the Central Studio for Documentary Films; in 1950–1951, he worked at a film studio in Yerevan.

One of the first residents of the House of Cinema Veterans in Moscow — the famous “Matveyevka”.

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