Studied at Architectural Trade School No. 9 (1943–1944) in the Department of Restoration; Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1945–1951); Moscow Institute of Printing Trade (1953–1954). Exhibited from 1949. Member of the Order of Destitute Painters – Arefiev Circle group (1948), the Aleph group (1975), the Association of Experimental Fine Art (1981). Worked as a proof-puller, house painter, roofer, radio installer, appraiser, expediter and logger. Main collections: State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (both St Petersburg), Far Eastern Art Museum (Khabarovsk).

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