Born in 1957 in Moscow. In 1985 he graduated from Moscow GOV't. khudozh. Institute. V. I. Surikov (mast. T. T. Salakhova). Member of the Ministry of agriculture from 1988 From 1978 party youth Republican and all-Union exhibitions. Works are in the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow, in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and in private collections in Russia and abroad.