Studied at the Repin Institute of Arts (1964–1970) in the Faculty of Graphic Art under M. A. Taranov. Exhibited since 1971. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1975), the Tsekh (Guild) group (1991), the Verband Bildender Künstler und Künstlerinnen Württemberg (1998). Worked as an artist at the Experimental Printing Studio of the Graphic Art Workshops of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Art Fund (1970–1996); the Detskaia literatura (Children’s Literature) publishing house (1976–1991); Open Studio in Toronto, Canada (1986); the Bath Artist Printmakers society and Oxford Printmakers’ Co-operative, both UK (1991); the N. A. Tyrsa Experimental Workshop-Studio association, St Petersburg, which he chaired (1994–1998); Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking, Finland (1995–2013); the lithographic studio of the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart, Germany (1998-2016). Lived and worked in St Petersburg (1945–1998) before emigrating from Russia, based in Stuttgart, Germany, since 1998. Main collections: ROSIZO (Moscow), National Library of Russia, Peterhof State Museum- Reserve, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Chita, Irbit, Kozmodemyansk, Krasnokamsk, Sochi, Vologda, Yaroslavl; Jyväskylä Art Museum (Finland), Art Museum of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia), German National Library (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands), British Library (London, UK).

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