A member of the CPSU from 1973. Graduated From Moscow. textile Institute (1963) and VGIK (1974). Lived and worked in Moscow. Published since 1969. Et al. otd. information of "Literary newspaper". From 1977 sekr. of the Board of the joint venture of RSFSR. Proizv. about the contemporary working class (novel "the twelfth drilling", 1974; "Highway", 1976; "Party", 1977, etc.). Also known as a painter.