Anisim Berlin was a Russian and Soviet violinist and music educator. He was born in Dorogobuzh on 20 December 1896 (8 December Old Style) and died in Moscow on 14 February 1961. He graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory, where he studied with Leopold Auer.
From 1914 to 1916, Berlin worked for Count Alexander Sheremetev as concertmaster of his orchestra and first violinist of the quartet of the Musical-Historical Society. From 1917 to 1921, he directed the music classes of the Omsk Philharmonic Society; his pupils there included the young Yuri Yankelevich.
From 1928, Berlin was concertmaster of the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. From 1941 to 1952, he held the same position with the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR. He taught at the Music School attached to the Moscow Conservatory from 1923 to 1934. In 1934, he was named Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He was buried in a family grave at New Donskoy Cemetery in Moscow.