Studied at Rostov Art College (1946–1950); Rostov Civil Engineering and Construction Institute (1950–1955); the Repin Institute of Arts, as an external student (1956–1958) in the Faculty of Sculpture under I. V. Krestovsky. Exhibited from 1958. Member of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1966). Main collections: State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg).