Painter. Honored worker of arts of Ukraine (2000). B. On 5 June 1940 in the village of Yampil, Donetsk region, Graduated from the Crimean art College im. N. With.Samokish (1962-66) and hhpi (1966-71), where he studied with E. Egorova, B. Kosarev, B. Kolesnyk, Ye. Bykov. HO member of the CFS since 1982, Chairman of the section of painting since 1998. The participant of Republican, all-Union, international and foreign exhibitions since 1972. Personal exhibitions: Kharkiv - 1982; town of Krasnohrad (Kharkiv. region) - 1988; town of Chuhuyiv (Kharkiv region) - 1989. Works in hhpi, associate Professor (1990).