Studied at Yekaterinburg Art College (1916); the State Free Art Workshops, Perm (1921); Yekaterinburg Practical Institute of Art (1922–1923); VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1923–1926) under A. Ye. Karev, M. V. Matiushin and A. I. Savinov; GINKhUK (1926– 1927) under K. S. Malevich. Exhibited from 1932. Member of the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1933). Worked as an artist in the Gosizdat, Detgiz and Detskaia literature (Children’s Literature) publishing houses (1927–1971)); the Experimental Printing Workshop of the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (from 1937); the Boevoi karandash (Fighting Pencil) association (1939–1944). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1976). Awarded the Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Arts (1981), the I. Ye. Repin State Prize of the RSFSR (1982), the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class (1985) and Order of the Friendship of Peoples (1985). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, ROSIZO, State Museum of the History of Russian Literature, Victory Museum (all Moscow), Institute of Russian Literature, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Memorial Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of the Political History of Russia, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Ivanovo, Kemerovo, Kirov, Vladikavkaz, Vologda and others.

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