Georg Bogatkin

Bogatkin graduated from Tallinn 46th Secondary School (now Pelgulinn High School) in 1972 and from the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR as a ceramist in 1978.^[3][4]

Bogatkin's mother was the Estonian artist Valli Lember-Bogatkina,^[4][5] and his father was the Russian artist Vladimir Bogatkin.^[6] His wife is the sculptor and ceramist Airike Taniloo-Bogatkin.^[1][6] His daughter is the linguist Mari Uusküla.^[7][8]