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He eventually adopted the name 'Dziga Vertov', which translates loosely from Ukrainian as 'spinning top'. In 1916–1917 Vertov was studying medicine at the Psychoneurological Institute in Saint Petersburg and experimenting with 'sound collages' in his free time. The Kaufmans soon settled in Petrograd, where Vertov began writing poetry, science fiction, and satire. Vertov studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from the invading German Army to Moscow in 1915. He Russified his Jewish name and patronymic, David Abelevich, to Denis Arkadievich at some point after 1918. Vertov was born David Abelevich Kaufman into a Jewish family in Białystok, Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire. Vertov's younger brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, Yelizaveta Svilova.

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In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the eighth-greatest film ever made.

He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. Dziga Vertov ( Russian: Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман, and also known as Denis Kaufman 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.