Arkadii Trofimovich Dragomoshchenko was born on February 3, 1946 in Potsdam, in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
Dragomoshchenko lectured in the Department of Philosophy at the St Petersburg State University, and provided seminars as a Visiting Professor at various institutes in the United States and Canada, including the University of California, San Diego, New York University, and the University at Buffalo.