Personal Life
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1928, Gordienko moved to the United States to pursue studies to enter a medical career. He was briefly associated with a communist party. He was arrested for distributing communist literature, which caused him to be deported and sent back to Canada. He settled in Sidney, British Columbia, where he worked in the logging industry.
After his retirement, Gordienko became an artist. His favorite artist was Pablo Picasso, and he met Picasso at one point. From 1976 to 1990, he lived in Italy with a Greek woman named Christina Tassou. Gordienko died of melanoma in 2002.
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