Born in 1935 in the Urals, in Perm. He served in the Navy on the Solovetsky Islands, where for the first time in 1955 began to publish articles about figures of Russian culture and art in the newspaper "Northern watch".
In 1964 graduated from the 1st Medical Institute in Leningrad. Medical activities combined with painting and art history. Guided tours of the parks of the Peterhof Palace. The society "Knowledge" lectured on the application of the methods of medical hypnosis in medicine.
In 1985, the year wrote a series of stories about encounters with interesting people. Engaged in the work of the artist Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov. The personal funds of a monument on his grave.
In 1987 with the aim of collecting material for stories has taken a journey by bike from Leningrad to lake Baikal. Wrote a series of stories about the lives of people in the province that have been approved by the editor of the "Russian idea" by Alexander Ginzburg and printed in Paris.
In 1989, the "Stalin's Dead road" in the Arctic circle gathering material about the life of prisoners, ex-in German captivity and in enemy-occupied territory.
My stories were published in St. Petersburg magazine "Zvezda", No. 4, 1995.
In 1997 he published two volumes of short stories and essays about the moral problems of man, "Pages of life".
In 1999 he published three books: "Measure of time" about the drama of the poetic talent, the book is the dispute about the painting "the features of alienation" and the novel "My strange friend". In the future, was published in the St. Petersburg journal "Neva".
Since 1999 is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of writers.