Studied at Leningrad Palace of Pioneers art studio (1954–1958); Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1959–1965) in the Department of Interior Decoration and Furnishings. Exhibited from 1962. Member of the Petersburg group (1965), the Association for Experimental Exhibitions (1976), the Association of Experimental Fine Art (1981), IFA (1991), the St Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art association (1994), St Petersburg Union of Artists (1992), the Architects’ Union of Russia (1992). Publisher of samizdat illustrated almanacs Parus (Sail) and Chertopolokh (Thistle, 1965–1966); worked as a chief artist of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers (1965–1970); an artistdesigner at the Lenzhilproekt institute (1970s), at the State Russian Museum (1995–2000). Main collections: Museum of Nonconformist Art, Peterhof State Museum-Reserve, S. P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Kazan, Magnitogorsk, Stary Oskol and Veliky Novgorod.

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