Studied at Odessa Institute of Art (1930–1934) under A. Gaush and T. Fraerman. Exhibited from 1954. Member of Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (1946–1952 expelled, reinstated 1957). Worked as chief artist of the State Museum of Socialist Reconstruction of Agriculture, Leningrad; as a district artist-decorator in Leningrad (1941–1945). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin All-Russian Museum, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), City Historical Museum (Goryachy Klyuch), Cultural and Historical Museum Complex (Kozmodemyansk), I. A. Goncharov Regional Museum of Local Studies (Ulyanovsk), State art museums in Bryansk, Kirov, Khabarovsk, Kurgan, Volgograd. 

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