Born in the city of Aspen Kemerovo region. From 1961 to 1965 and 1968 to 1969 he studied at the Irkutsk school of arts at G. E. Novikova, G. V. Bogdanov and G. V. Antsiferov. In 1979 - 1981, 1982, 1985, he taught "the art of font and typography" at the Irkutsk College of arts. Since 1969, has partnered with the East-Siberian book publishing house. A member of the Union of artists of the USSR since 1975. At the all-Union book art contest was awarded a diploma of II degree for a book by L. shinkareva "Siberia: where she went and where she's going" (1975). At the all-Russian book art contest was awarded a diploma of I degree for books "October March" and "Through the age-old taiga" (1978), for the book "TRANS-Baikal gate" was awarded an incentive diploma (1980).
Participant of exhibitions: regional, 1968; zonal - 1969, 1975, 1980; Republican (Moscow) - 1974, 1975, 1978, 1980; international (Moscow, VDNKH) - 1977, 1979, 1980; foreign (Canada) - 1978 (USA, Germany, Japan)- 1975
Literature: Lareva T. G., Hells Vladimir Alekseevich. The Artists Of Irkutsk. 1994.