Was born in d. Avarice Kirov region. From 1945 to 1949 he studied at the Kazan art school from 1949 to 1955 - at the Kharkov state Institute of A. P. Lyubimskiy, V. V. Sizikova, S. F. Besedin. From 1955 to 1957 and from 1981 to 1984 he taught at the Irkutsk art College. Among his pupils - E. G. Novikova, V. Pinigin, G. Kurochkina-Domashenko, Yuri Kruglov. A member of the artists Union of the USSR since 1956