Born in Nizhny Novgorod. He graduated from VKHUTEMAS (Kazan, Russia) in 1921, courses of Methodists on the fine arts in 1929. (Moscow). A painter and decorator. Worked in the genre of the urban landscape. A member of the artists Union from 1935 to 1940.
In 1925, the permanent participant of exhibitions. II Exhibitor of the exhibition, the artist periphery (Moscow 1940). He taught drawing in the schools of the city of Gorky.