Studied at the House of Pioneers in Petrogradsky District, Leningrad (1931–1938); Leningrad Palace of Pioneers art studio (1935– 1938); Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1939–1942); the Repin Institute of Arts as an undergraduate (1946–1951) in the Faculty of Graphic Art under A. F. Pakhomov, L. F. Ovsiannikov, M. A. Taranov and K. I. Rudakov, and a postgraduate (1951–1955). Exhibited from 1951. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1951), the USSR Union of Journalists (1969). Worked as an artist for the publishing houses Lenizdat (1951–1970s), Detskaia literatura (1980s–1990s), for the magazines Aurora (1969–2002), Neva (1982–1990s). Taught at the Repin Institute of Arts (1952–2002), Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Art (1973), Professor (1976). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1965), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1982); Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1975), Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1988). WWII veteran, awarded medals For Merit in Battle, For the Defence of Leningrad, For the Capture of Königsberg, 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 Museum of the Modern History of Russia, State Historical Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts Museum, State Museum of the Political History of Russia, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), Shushenskoe Museum-Reserve of History and Ethnography (Krasnoyarsk Territory), State art museums in Bryansk, Cherepovets, Kazan, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Sevastopol, Vologda and others.

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