Arkady Viktorovich Rusin was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1926. At the age of 15, he entered the Odessa Art School named after the battle painter Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov. He studied there under the teaching artists Yevgeny Bukovetsky, Leonid Muchnik and others.

The Great Patriotic War interrupted the studies of the artist. Upon his return from the front, Arkady Viktorovich entered the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied there in the workshop of the painter, graphic artist, professor Rudolf Frenz. He was awarded a diploma of the Artist of Battle Painting for “Suvorov in Izmail”. After graduating from the Institute, the artist went to Volgograd, where he began to actively participate in the art life of the city and became a candidate to the Union of Artists of the USSR.

In 1958, the artist returned to his hometown, where he began teaching at the Odessa Art School. Arkady Rusin’s active life position helped him to become the head of the Fine Arts Department of the Faculty of Art and Graphic Arts at the Odessa State Pedagogical Institute named after Konstantin Ushinsky.

From 1973, the Odessa branch of the Union of Artists and the Art Museum organized solo traveling exhibitions of the artist in cities and districts of the Odessa region. More than 100 works by Arkady Rusin were presented at the exhibitions, including “Suvorov in Izmail”, “Bogdan Khmelnitsky”, “In the Don Steppes”, “Along the Roads of Ukraine”, as well as numerous landscapes, still lifes and portraits.

Arkady Rusin participated in numerous international exhibitions. His work is known not only in Russia, but also in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Italy, the USA, France, Finland and Japan. The artist donated a number of works to the Odessa Art Museum.

In 2006, the artist was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine on his 80th birthday. The artist passed away in 2017 at the age of 91.