Studied at the secondary school No. 190 affiliated with Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1960–1963); Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1964–1967); Leningrad Civil Engineering and Construction Institute (1967–1972) in the Faculty of Architecture; Photojournalism Courses at the USSR Union of Journalists (1977–1978). Member of St Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art, Artists’ Union of Russia, Art Photographers’ Union of Russia. Main collections: MAMM, MMOMA (both Moscow), Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, S. P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art at St Petersburg State University (both St Petersburg), State art museums in Astrakhan, Kazan, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Krasnodar, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk.