Studied at Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1965–1972); the Repin Institute of Arts (1972–1978) in the Faculty of Painting under A. A. Mylnikov. Exhibited since 1978. Member of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1982), the St Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art association (1996). Creator of monumental works for public buildings in St Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk and Sayanogorsk. Taught at the Repin Institute of Arts (1982–1989); St Petersburg State University (since 2008). Lives and works in St Petersburg. Main collections: Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, Russian Museum of Ethnography, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), Gatchina State Museum-Reserve (Leningrad Region), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Petrozavodsk, Saratov and Sosnovy Bor; Skagens Museum (Denmark), V. V. Vereschagin Nikolaev Regional Art Museum (Ukraine).

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