Studied at the A. I. Herzen State Pedagogical Institute, Leningrad (1982–1987) in the Faculty of Art and Graphic Design. Exhibited since 1987. Member of the St Petersburg Union of Artists (1991–2015), the St Petersburg Society of Watercolourists (2000). Teaches at the Russian State Pedagogical University (since 1999). Lives and works in St Petersburg (since 1982). Main collections: State Museum of Urban Sculpture (St Petersburg), Novaya Ladoga Museum of History and Local Studies, M. A. Vrubel Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts.