Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
Honored artist of the RSFSR, PhD, associate Professor.
He graduated from the sculptural Department of the Moscow state art Institute. Surikov in 1951, graduate of this institution in 1954, PhD; member of the Union of artists of the USSR (Russia) since 1953; he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Union of artists, author of the Glory monument to the fallen in the great Patriotic war in the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region, Lenin monuments in Biysk and city of Minusinsk, PI Tchaikovsky in Klin and other works; Honoured artist of Russia.