Naum Kleiman is an historian of cinema, Russian film critic, specialist in Sergei Eisenstein, former director of the Moscow State Central Cinema Museum, Eisenstein-Centre director. He was co-founder of the legendary Eisenstein Archives, and their director from 1967 to 1985. In 1989 he founded the Moscow State Central Cinema Museum whose director he became in 1992. From 1992 to 2014 he was director of the Moscow State Central Cinema Museum and director of the Eisenstein Centre. In 2017 he released the book "Eisenstein on Paper. Graphic Works by the Master of Film" about collection of drawings, sketches, caricatures and storyboards by Sergei Eisenstein.