Rank: Captain. Service rank: Artillery. Division: 250th Rifle Bobruisk Red Banner Command of the Suvorov Division. Year of birth: 1913. Place of birth: Buross mine, Makeyevsky district, Donetsk region. In 1937 he graduated from the Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk) Technical College of Physical Education. 1937-1938 - served in the 105th separate department of the NKVD, Kiev. 1939-1940 - cadet of the combined school, Artemovsk, Donetsk region. 1940-1941 - combine harvester, Moldavian SSR, state enterprise "Ekaterinovka". 1941-1942 Methodist physiotherapy in the hospital, Izhmorskiy district, Novosibirsk region. 1942 - Cadet of the 1st Artillery School, Tomsk, Novosibirsk region. 1942-1944 Commander of an artillery platoon, Rifle Regiment 918, Rifle Division 250, North-Western and Bryansk fronts. 1944-1946 Commander of a battery of 76 mm guns, 918 Rifle Regiment, 250 Rifle Division, 1, 2, 3 Belarusian fronts. 1946-1947 battery commander of the 42nd mechanized regiment, 12th guard mechanized division, Belarusian military district. 1947- teacher of physical culture at the tank school of the Ulyanovsk Guard. 1947-1961 years. RVC officer of the main district of the Ulyanovsk oblast. On the fronts of the Patriotic War since August 1942 - Front North-Western, Bryansk, Central, 1,2 and 3 Belarusian fronts. Izhmorskiy, recalled by Military Commissariat of the Novosibirsk region. Minor injuries 08.08.1942, 16.03.1945, severe concussion in September 1942. Awarded the Order of: - "Patriotic War" 1 and 2 degrees, - two orders of the Red Star, - medals. In the battles on the Belarusian front, near the village of Yurkovichi, he repulsed five counterattacks of superior enemy forces and destroyed about 40 Germans. In the area of v. Scherstin. 15.11.1943 two guns were suppressed, three enemy machine gun spikes were destroyed, which prevented the passage of our infantry. Since July 1942, according to the calculations of Lieutenant Knysh G. F., more than two hundred German soldiers and officers were destroyed, a lot of enemy equipment was put out of action. In the battles for v. Oserare, Rogachevsky district of the Gomel region on June 24 and 26, 1944, his battery operated while storming enemy trenches from an open fire position and fired on enemy personnel and equipment. Destroyed: 75 mm cannon, 10 machine gun points. In the fighting on the 2nd Belarusian front on the highway Minsk-Mogilev near the village of Negovichi on 30.06.1944, when the enemy attempted a counterattack on our units, Lieutenant Knysh G. F. put the guns of his battery under direct fire and destroyed the guns of the enemy together with the calculation. He took the initiative, opened a heavy gunfire of cannons on a moving column of enemy vehicles with soldiers and destroyed 8 vehicles together with enemy soldiers. In another battle on 13.07.1944 in the area of v. Sands, precise fire from the gun batteries destroyed 8 enemy firing ranges and a transporter, thus securing the successful advance of our infantry. In the offensive battles 06.09.1944 year. During the liberation of the town and the fortress of ostrolenka was constantly on the battery firing ranges, provided strong and accurate fire to defeat the enemy defenses on the outskirts of the town Ostrolenka, which helped our gun units to storm the town and the fortress. In an offensive battle on the 3rd Belarusian front on 16.02.1945, while crossing the river Walsch near the town of Malzak in East Prussia, Senior Lieutenant Knysh, G. destroyed the fortress. F., who was in the front line of the regiment's infantry, destroyed 6 enemy fire points with direct cannon fire, smashed a transporter and destroyed more than 30 enemy soldiers, which enabled our rifle units to quickly cross the river and to attach themselves to the bridgehead to take the town of Malzak. When they advanced under heavy enemy fire and changed their firing position quickly and boldly, their guns took out 4 wagons of enemy soldiers. In the offensive battle of 17.03.1945 on the territory of the village of Grunau, he caused heavy cannon fire, which destroyed 3 enemy firing ranges, preventing our units from advancing. In this battle he was wounded. After the war he worked as a table tennis trainer in the main palace of the pioneers. He raised many sportsmen, including his son Knysh Yuri Georgievich, champion of Ulyanovsk region. He died in 1994. To this day the main sports complex hosts table tennis tournaments in memory of the legendary local coach George Knysh.