Painter. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR. Professor. Author of books on methods of teaching fine art was Born in 1908 in Kiev. Studied in 1926-1930 in VKhUTEMAS (Vhuteine) in AA Osmerkin, I. Mashkov, BV Smirnov, in 1924-1929 — in the Studio of D. N. Kardovsky. Participant of art exhibitions since 1934. Major works: "Semidesertic" (1936, Donetsk art Museum), "the Top is taken" (1937, Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR), "Volkhov River" (1940, Dnepropetrovsk art Museum), images of 30-50-ies (TG), a series of landscapes by Turgenev and Lermontov places (1955-1960, Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian literature of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad), "Portraits of younger contemporaries" (1960-1970, Tula regional art Museum), a series of landscapes by Nekrasov places (1974, Museum-estate of N. A. Nekrasov "Karabikha", Yaroslavl region), "Urban landscapes" (1977-1978, Bryansk regional Museum of Soviet art). Official website gbsmirnov.ru