Studied at Z. A. Rokachevsky’s studio, Tomsk (1918–1920); Petrograd University (1920–1921) in the Faculty of History and Philology; the Arts and Crafts Workshops of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Petrograd (1921–1922) under A. F. Bely; VKhUTEIN. Pg–L (1923–1927) in the Faculty of Painting under K. S. Petrov- Vodkin and M. P. Bobyshov; the Studio at the House of Arts (1928) under K. S. Malevich. Exhibited from 1932. Member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (1944). Worked as a designer of exhibitions and celebrations, as an artistdecorator in Leningrad theatres (1920s–1930s), in the Omsk Young Spectators’ Theatre and various theatres in Novosibirsk as an evacuee (1942–1945); production designer at the Bolshoi Theatre (1948); designer of displays at the Museum of the History of Religion and the Museum of Public Health of Leningrad Municipal Health Department (1950s); the Applied Art Workshops of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Art Fund (1970s–1991). Founder and teacher at the Art Studio affiliated with the Industrial Cooperation House of Culture, Leningrad (1920s–1930s); taught at Leningrad State Theatre Institute (1958–1959). Main collections: Taganrog Art Museum, I. I. Mashkov Museum of Fine Arts (Volgograd).

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