Studied at Petrograd Technical Drawing School (1915–1917) under M. V. Dobuzhinsky, V. I. Shukhaev and S. V. Chekhonin; the State Training Workshops for the Decorative Arts (1920–1922) under N. A. Tyrsa, V. V. Lebedev and A. Ye. Karev; VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1922–1925) in the Faculty of Painting under A. I. Savinov. Exhibited from 1921. Member of the associations ONTI (Association of New Art Trends, 1921), SORABIS (Union of Art Workers, 1924), Krug khudozhnikov (Circle of Artists, 1926–1931), the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Worked as an artist for the Okna ROSTA (Russian Telegraph Agency Windows, 1921), for the magazines Zhizn iskusstva (Life of Art), Sovetskie rebiata (Soviet Children), Ezh (Hedgehog), Chizh (Siskin), Koster (Bonfire), Murzilka, in the publishing houses Molodaia gvardiia (Young Guard), Khudozhestvennaia literatua (Fiction), Izogiz, Uchpedgiz, Detizdat (1920s–1930s); in the Experimental Printing Workshop of the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (from 1934); creator of monumental works for public buildings in Leningrad (1920s–1930s). Taught at a secondary school in the town of Kadnikov (1918); the Repin Institute of Arts (1948–1973), Professor (1949). Honoured Art Worker of the RSFSR (1945), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1963), People’s Artist of the USSR (1971); Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1958), Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1964). Awarded the Gold Medal at the World’s Fair in Paris (1937), the Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1946), the USSR State Prize (1973). Main collections: ROSIZO, State Central Museum of the Modern History of Russia, State Museum of the History of Russian Literature, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), Central Naval Museum, Raznochinny Petersburg Museum, State Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, State Memorial Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad, State Museum of the Political History of Russia, State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Cherepovets, Ivanovo, Kazan, Kirov, Vologda, Yekaterinburg and others.

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