German Getsevich

German Alexandrovich Getsevich (; October 28, 1961, Moscow — September 1, 2021, ib.) was a Russian poet, prose writer, translator.

Biography Getsevich was born on October 28, 1961, in Moscow in a family of employees. His mother was Rimma Vasilievna Getsevich, a chemical engineer (1938-2008), and father Alexander Iosifovich Kogan (1921–2019), a military dermatologist, candidate of medical sciences, and participant of the Great Patriotic War. His stepfather was Boris Grigorievich Milovanov (1925-2010), a master pastry chef and head of the shop. German spent his childhood and youth in Sokolniki District. From 1981 to 1982 he served in the Soviet Army, in the Transcaucasian Military District. Received a medical degree, from 1981 to 2009 he worked for emergency medical services. He tried to enter the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, but was not accepted.