Graduated from Kazan Art College (1947); studied at the Repin Institute of Arts (1947– 1953) in the Faculty of Painting under M. I. Avilov. Exhibited from 1953. Member of the USSR Union of Soviet Artists (1953). Main collections: State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum (both St Petersburg), State art museums in Belgorod, Kazan, Kirov, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Tambov. © Museum of 20th–21st Century Art of St Petersburg, 2022