Studied at PGSKhUM – VKhUTEMAS, Pg – VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1918–1924) in the Faculty of Painting under K. S. Petrov- Vodkin and the Faculty of Sculpture under A. T. Matveev; the Repin Institute of Arts (1933–1936) in the Further Training Courses under A. T. Matveev. Candidate of Art History (1945). Exhibited from 1929. Member of the associations Krug khudozhnikov (Circle of Artists, 1928–1929), the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Taught at the Repin Institute of Arts (1932–1936, 1939–1941, 1945– 1948), Associate Professor (1946); Leningrad Civil Engineering and Construction Institute (1956– 1961), Associate Professor. WWII veteran, awarded the medal For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Main collections: Peterhof State Museum-Reserve, State Museum of A. S. Pushkin, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum, Zelenogorsk Museum and Exhibition Centre (all St Petersburg).

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