Studied in Professor V. Ye. Savinsky’s studio (1928–1930); the Art College affiliated with the Fine Art Workshops for Working Youth, Leningrad (1932–1934) under G. N. Traugot. Exhibited from 1940. Member of the Union of Soviet Artists (1941). Worked at the Detgiz publishing house, Chizh (Siskin) and Koster (Bonfire) magazines (1937–1941), in the Boevoi karandash (Fighting Pencil) association (1939–1940). Served as an artist of the Publishing Department at the Political Administration of the North-Western and 2nd Belorussian Fronts (1941–1945). Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (2004). WWII veteran, awarded medals For Merit in Battle (twice), For the Liberation of Warsaw, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Main collections: State Museum of the History of Russian Literature (Moscow), Peterhof State Museum-Reserve, State Memorial Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), Breaking of the Siege of Leningrad Museum-Reserve (Leningrad Region), Krasnogorsk Branch of the Victory Museum (Moscow Region), State art museums in Irbit, Perm, Petrozavodsk and Ryazan.

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