In 1975 he graduated from Irkutsk regional art College where he studied in the art Department the teachers of the L. D. Kuklis, M. D. Voron'ko, A. G. Kotovskogo etc. In 1985 he graduated from the St. Petersburg state academic Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture named after I. E. Repin, faculty of theory and history of fine arts, where he studied with L. A. Punina, V. A. Lenyashin, R. I. Vlasova, N. With.Kuteynikovo etc. Since 1989 - member of Union of artists of Russia. Candidate of historical Sciences, the author of the book "Artists of Irkutsk" (1994, Eastern-Siberian book publishing house). In 1996 - admitted as a member of the International Association of art critics AIS.
Participation in exhibitions
personal (Irkutsk organization of the Union of writers of Russia) - March 1999; (Irkutsk regional art Museum named after V. P. Sukachev) - December 1999 to January 2000; at the invitation of the Slavic faculty of the Lausanne University (Switzerland) makes a trip to lecture on the art of Siberia and of a personal exhibition - may 2000; (Irkutsk Museum of V. S. Rogal) - February 2002
joint ("on the Eve of the new Millennium", city exhibition hall g. Shelekhov) - January - February 2000 ("a Native of Siberia", Irkutsk House of the actor) - 2000; (Irkutsk regional musical theater,the exhibition is timed to the festival "the Radiance of Russia") - October 2000; ("portrait", House of Basninyh, Museum of telecommunications) - March 2002, (international women's forum "Women for survival of the planet" ISTU) - July 2002
Presentation of the portrait of Yulia Bubentsova (descendant of A. S. Pushkin in Irkutsk), Museum of Decembrists Volkonsky House - June 2002