Studied at I. B. Streblov’s art studio in Petrograd (1920–1921); the Art School- Colony in Slutsk, now Pavlovsk (1921–1927); Leningrad College of Art and Design (1927–1931) in the Department of Theatre Set Design under M. P. Bobyshov; the Institute for Further Training of Art Workers (1933–1934) under M. D. Bernshtein, A. A. Osmerkin and N. N. Punin. Exhibited from 1935. Member of the Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Worked in the City committee of fine arts (1930s–1940s); at Lenizo, Art Fund, Art and Design Workshops (1940s). WWII veteran, awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, medals For the Defence of Leningrad, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Main collections: State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky (Moscow), Institute of Russian Literature, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum-Institute of the Roerich Family (all St Petersburg), Feodosia Literary Memorial Museum of A. S. Grin, Rozhdestveno Museum-Estate (Leningrad Region), Tarkhany State Lermontov Museum- Reserve (Penza Region), Mikhailovskoe State Museum- Reserve of A. S. Pushkin (Pskov Region), M. Yu. Lermontov State Museum-Reserve (Pyatigorsk).

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