Ivan Kavaleridze was born on 1 April 1887 in Ladansky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ladansky, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Natalka Poltavka (1936), Koliyivshchyna (1933) and Zaporozhets za Dunayem (1937). He died on 3 December 1978 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].