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Georgy Kurasov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1958. At the age of twelve he entered the prestigious St. Petersburg Art School for Gifted Children, an affiliate of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. Georgy's acceptance was an enormous compliment to his talents. At the School, the students were trained in all aspects of academic drawing, including human anatomy, while simultaneously completing middle and high school programmess. Here formed the basis of Georgy's fantastic understanding of the human form, which so characterises his work today. Georgy graduated from the Art School in 1976 with the highest grades of his class. Within a month he was admitted to the renowned Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg to study sculpture, where, at eighteen, Georgy was more than ten years the junior of his classmates. While at the Academy, Georgy also excelled in painting, and procured a number of important commissions, to include an award-winning series of monuments located along the Helsinki-St. Petersburg Highway, a monument to the Russian artists killed during World War II, and a memorial statue to Taras Shevchenko, a famous Ukrainian poet, unveiled in 1981 in the town of Konotop, Ukraine. The same year, he married Zinaida, a Russian ballerina, who became the model for many of his works. In 1982, he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture and Painting, and was invited to join the exclusive Russian Union of Artists.