Studied at Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1951–1958); the Repin Institute of Arts (1958–1964) in the Faculty of Painting under A. A. Mylnikov. Exhibited since 1964. Member of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1970). Taught at secondary school No. 190 affiliated with Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1966–1967). Lives and works in St Petersburg. Main collections: State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), State Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Bryansk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Kurgan, Magadan, Pskov, Veliky Novgorod, Vologda and others.

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