Grigori Nikulin，Grigori Geogievich Nikulin was born on Decmber 5, 1922, in the village of Treshchovka, Saratov province, USSR. His father, Georgi Nikulin, was a Volga boatman, turned Red Army soldier during the Communist Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War. Young Grigori Nikulin attended a rural school until the beginning of the Second World War.