Fridrich Bruk was born in Kharkov, the Ukraine on September 18th, 1937 as a son of an engineer and a well-known pianist. In 1956 he graduated with a silver medal from Kharkov Music College of the Kharkov Conservatory. The same year Bruk continued his education in professor V. Voloshinov's (1905-1960) composition class at Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory. In 1961 he graduated as composer from the class of professor B. Arapov (1905-1992). During the years 1961-1964 Fridrich Bruk worked in Karelia where he was also awarded membership in the Society of the Soviet Composers. In 1964 Bruk returned to Leningrad where he continued his creative work composing music also for theater and movies as well as several popular songs. He headed the department of music in Lennauchfilm Studio.
Since 1974 Fridrich Bruk has resided in Finland where he has composed numerous symphonic works (seventeen symphonies), chamber and choir music as well as popular songs.