Studied at Art School in Feodosia (1957–1959); Odessa Art College (1959–1964); Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1966– 1971) in the Faculty of Artistic Design under V. I. Rakhina and G. P. Yegoshin. Exhibited since 1974. Member of the Association for Experimental Exhibitions (1975–1976), the Association of Experimental Fine Art (1981), the Young Artists and Art Critics Association (1971–1985), the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1985), the Tsekh (Guild) group (1989–1991). Taught at the Art Studio of the Vyborgsky District Palace of Pioneers, Leningrad (1971–1983); at preparatory courses for Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1982–1989); at the secondary school No. 190 affiliated with Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1989–1990). Lives and works in St Petersburg (since 1965). Main collections: National Library of Russia, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), Picture Gallery of Krasnoarmeisk Urban Area, V. P. Biriukov Local Studies Museum (Shadrinsk).

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