Studied at Terijoki Nonclassical Secondary School (1918–1922); I. Ye. Repin’s private studio (1919–1923); A. I. Savinov’s private studio (1925–1927); VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1925–1927) under K. S. Petrov- Vodkin, A. I. Savinov and V. V. Lebedev; the Higher Courses of Art History (1927–1928) in the Department of Cinematography under L. Z. Trauberg and G. M. Kozintsev. Exhibited from 1935. Member of the Gruppa zhivopisno-plasticheskogo realizma (Group of Painterly Plasticity Realism) association (1927–1932), the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1934). Worked as an artist at the Detgiz, Goslitizdat, Lenizdat, Molodaia gvardiia, Khudozhestvennaia literature (Fiction) and other publishing houses (1925–1960s); the Lenfilm studio (1930s), the Experimental Printing Studio of the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (from 1939). Taught at Ufa Art College (1932–1933); Leningrad Institute of Urban Construction Engineers (1934–1940); the House of Architects art studio (1934– 1940); the Repin Institute of Arts (1944–1946); Leningrad House of Cinema art studio (1946–1952). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, ROSIZO, State Central Theatre Museum, State Library of Russia, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), State Memorial Museum of A. V. Suvorov, State Memorial Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of the Political History of Russia, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), Breaking of the Siege of Leningrad Museum- Reserve (Leningrad Region), State art museums in Bryansk, Kazan, Kirov, Kurgan, Perm, Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk and others.

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