Andrikanis received the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1982 and Lenin Prize in 1978.
[1] Andrikanis was born on December 27, 1909, in Paris into a family of Russian immigrants.
[2] Andrikanis received secondary education in Moscow, where his family moved back to in 1916.
Upon graduating from school in 1928, he worked at the Sovkino filming studio [ru] as an assistant to cameraman.
He took part in filming Dreamers [ru] (1934), Cosmic Voyage (1936) and The Generation of Winners (1936).