Studied at the Workers Faculty of the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts (1930); the Art Studio at the House of Arts (1930) under K. I. Rudakov and N. A. Tyrsa; Leningrad Art and Pedagogical College (1933–1938) under A. A. Gromov, V. N. Levitsky and M. A. Aslamazian. Exhibited from 1954. Member of the USSR Union of Soviet Artists (1954). Worked as an unskilled worker in the art workshops of the Political Education Centre (1930–1931) and in the State Russian Museum (1931); as an artist in the Experimental Lithographic Workshop of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1946–1980). Taught at Leningrad Art College (1946–1968). WWII veteran, awarded medals For the Defence of Leningrad, For Valorous Labour in the Great Patriotic War, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, ROSIZO, State Central Theatre Museum (all Moscow), Peterhof State Museum-Reserve, State Memorial Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Bryansk, Cheboksary, Cherepovets, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Vladimir, Volgograd and others.

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