Studied at the A. Azimzade Art College, Baku (1959–1964); the Urals Polytechnic Institute, Sverdlovsk (1964–1965); Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema (1965–1970) in the Faculty of Theatre Production. Exhibited since 1963. Member of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1970), the Italart National Association of Artists of Italy (1992), founder and President of the St Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art association (1994). Worked as production designer at the Kirov Theatre (1977), the Maly Opera Theatre (1984), the Moscow Art Theatre (1989, 1991), the Maly Drama Theatre (2001) and others. Taught at the art studio in the A. D. Tsiurupa House of Culture (1979–1989). Honoured Artist of Russia (2009); Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2012), Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (2019). Lives and works in St Petersburg (since 1965). Main collections: State Central Theatre Museum, State Library of Russia, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), Museum of Nonconformist Art, National Library of Russia, S. P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Astrakhan, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Stavropol and others; Narva Art Gallery (Estonia), Sakima Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Museum of Russian Art (Kiev, Ukraine), Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, USA).

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