Studied at Odessa Institute of Fine Arts (1918–1922) in the Faculty of Theatre Arts; the Second Petrograd Polytechnical Institute (1923) in the Faculty of Architecture; the Circle for the Study of New Western Art, Leningrad (1929) under K. S. Malevich. Exhibited from 1922. Member of the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Worked as an artist for the magazines Chizh (Siskin) and Ezh (Hedgehog), and the publishing houses Raduga (Rainbow), Detgiz, GIZ, Molodaia gvardiia (Young Guard, 1920s); as production designer at the Workers’ Theatre of the House of the Press, the Bolshoi Drama Theatre and the Red Theatre, all – Leningrad (1924–1935); at the Lenfilm and Ukrainfilm studios (1935–1937); as an artist at Leningrad Artistic Glassworks (1948–1950) and Leningrad Porcelain Factory (1950–1974). Honoured Art Worker of the RSFSR (1967). Awarded the Large Gold Medal at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, the I. Ye. Repin State Prize of the RSFSR (1970). WWII veteran, awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals For Merit in Battle, For the Defence of Leningrad and For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Main collections: All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, Kuskovo Estate Museum, State Central Museum of the Modern History of Russia, State Central Theatre Museum, State Historical Museum, Tsaritsyno State History, Architecture, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve (all Moscow), State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of the Political History of Russia, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Barnaul, Irkutsk, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Vologda, Yekaterinburg and others.

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