Studied at Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1947–1954); the Repin Institute of Arts (1954–1960) in the Faculty of Graphic Art under A. F. Pakhomov. Exhibited from 1956. Member of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1960), the USSR Union of Journalists. Worked as an artist for the magazines Boevoi karandash (Fighting Pencil), Koster (Bonfire), Neva, Murzilka, Veselye kartinki (Funny Cartoon Pictures) and others (1950–1986); chief artist of the magazine Aurora (1969–1972); an artist in the publishing houses Iskusstvo (Art), Khudozhnik RSFSR, Detskaia literatura (Children’s Literature), Khudozhestvennaia literatura (Fiction) and others (1956–1986). Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (2003). Awarded the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2003). Main collections: ROSIZO, State Central Museum of the Modern History of Russia, State Central Theatre Museum, State Library of Russia, State Museum of the History of Russian Literature, State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), National Library of Russia, S. P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Irbit, Penza, Rybinsk, Saransk, Sevastopol, Volgograd and others; Moravian Gallery (Brno, Czech Republic), Spencer Art Museum (Lawrence, USA), Kolodzei Art Foundation (New Brunswick, USA), Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, USA).

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