Studied at Petrograd Institute of Railway Engineers (1921–1924); PGSKhUM – VKhUTEMAS, Pg – VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1920–1927) in the Faculty of Architecture under I. A. Fomin. Member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Architects (1933), the USSR Union of Soviet Artists (1950). Taught at the Repin Institute of Arts (1934–1941, 1946–1948); Leningrad Institute of Urban Construction Engineers (1936); the Leningrad Branch of the USSR Academy of Architecture (1948–1952); Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1952–1963), Head of Department (1952–1955); Moscow Higher College of Art and Design (1963–1965). Worked as an architect, designing residential, industrial and public buildings, as a designer of festivities, interior designer, an artist for the publishing houses Seiatel (Sower), Detgiz, for Chizh (Siskin) and Ezh (Hedgehog) magazines (1920s–1930s); as an artist in Leningrad Artistic Glassworks (from 1948), as porcelain and ceramics artist (1950s–1970s). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1968). Awarded the Gold Medal at the World’s Fair in Brussels (1958), a medal For Valiant Labour (1970), the RSFSR State Repin Prize (1979). WWII veteran, awarded the Order of the Red Star, Order of the Great Patriotic War, 2nd class, medals For the Defence of Leningrad, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 and To Defender of the Kronstadt Fortress. Main collections: All-Russian Decorative, Applied and Folk Art Museum, Kuskovo Estate Museum (both Moscow), State art museums in Astrakhan, Bryansk, Kazan, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Nizhny Tagil, Volgograd and others.

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