Natan Rakhlin was a Ukrainian conductor. Rakhlin was born January 10, 1906. He served as Artistic Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine from 1937 to 1962 and was the musical director on a number of Soviet films. In 1941 he succeed Alexander Gauk as director of the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR. Under his direction the orchestra premiered Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 on October 30, 1957.