Studied at the Repin Institute of Arts as an undergraduate (1971–1977) in the Faculty of Painting under Ye. Ye. Moiseenko, and a post‑graduate (1977–1979) under Ye. Ye. Moiseenko. Exhibited since 1977. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1979), the Italart National Association of Artists of Italy (1993). Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). Lives and works in St Petersburg (since 1969). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin, Museum of Nonconformist Art, Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, State Hermitage, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Astrakhan, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Vladivostok, Vologda, Yekaterinburg and others, Shushenskoe Museum-Reserve of History and Ethnography (Krasnoyarsk Territory), O. Ye. Kler Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Studies; Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts (China), Kadriorg Art Museum (Tallinn, Estonia), Tampere Art Museum (Finland), Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany), Kiev National Museum of Russian Art (Ukraine), Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, USA).

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