Biography and information
Schedule. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
Grigory Garkusha was born September 10, 1922 in the village of Vasilkovka Vasilkovsky district, Dnipropetrovsk region in the family farmers. Younger sister Galina and brother Ivan, both born in 1925. Graduated high school with honors. Immediately after he was mobilized into the Red Army began the Second World War. He served as a clerk in the headquarters of the Odessa military district, came under fire and wounded in the knee and discharged. Getting wounded himself home in Vasilkovka, managed to avoid captivity. After the war he studied at the Kiev Art Institute, and later in graduate school. He was married, had no children. It's great to draw, recently worked schedule. Died from a serious illness in 1993 at the age of 71, buried on baykovoye cemetery in Kiev.
