Studied at Leningrad Art College (1947–1952); Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1952–1953); the Repin Institute of Arts (1953–1959) in the Faculty of Painting under B. V. Ioganson and A. D. Zaitsev. Exhibited from 1959. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1965), the Gruppa “Odinnadtsati” (Group of “Eleven”) association (1972). Worked at the Painting and Sculpture Workshops of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Art Fund (1959). Teacher at the secondary school No. 190 affiliated with Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1963– 1965); Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1965–1973). Main collections: State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), State Russian Museum (St Petersburg), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Omsk, Petrozavodsk, Tomsk, Tula, Tyumen, Vologda and others; Art Museum of Georgia (Tbilisi).

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