Evgeniya Gorkusha was born on March 8, 1915 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for
Uchinari Jani (1943) and
Pyatyy okean (1940). She was married to Pyotr Shirshov. She died on August 22, 1948 in village Omchak, Tenkinsky District, Khabarovsk Krai, RSFSR, USSR [now Tenkinsky District, Magadan Oblast, Russia].