Studied at Petrograd – Leningrad College of Art and Design (1921–1925) under V. N. Fedorovich and M. I. Avilov; in the preparatory classes for VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1924–1925). Exhibited from 1928. Member of the Obschina khudozhnikov (Commune of Artists, 1928–1930), the Tsekh khudozhnikov (Guild of Artists, 1930–1932), the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Served in the Red Army (1925–1927). Worked as an artist for the newspapers Leninskie iskry (Lenin’s Sparks), Bytovaia gazeta (Daily Newspaper), for the magazines Krasnaia panorama (Red Panorama), Yunyi proletarii (Young Proletarian), Rezets (Cutter), and in the publishing houses Raduga (Rainbow), Detgiz (1927–1934), in the Experimental Printing Studio of the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (from 1940). WWII veteran, awarded medals For the Defence of Leningrad, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), Shushenskoe Museum-Reserve of History and Ethnography (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Zaraysk Kremlin Museum-Reserve (Moscow Region), State art museums in Barnaul, Ivanovo, Komsomolskon- Amur, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Vologda, Yekaterinburg and others.

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