Studied at Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1953–1959); Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1964–1969) in the Faculty of Artistic Ceramics and Glass under V. S. Vasilkovsky and V. F. Markov. Exhibited from 1964. Member of the USSR Union Artists (1973), the Odna kompozitsiia (Single Composition) group (1977–1986), the Ozerki – Derevnia khudozhnikov (Artists’ Village) association (1989), the St Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art association (1995). Worked as an artist at the Applied Art and Sculpture Workshops of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Art Fund (1969–1991). Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (1998). Main collections: All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Kuskovo Estate Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), S. P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum, Yelagin Island Palace-Museum of Russian Decorative and Applied Art and Interior of the 18th–20th Centuries (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Astrakhan, Nizhny Tagil, Omsk and Tyumen; International Enamel Collection (Kecskemét, Hungary).

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