Born: village Skopiivka, Kirovohrad oblast. Graduated from Odessa art College (1957), the art Department of VGIK (1963). 1963 — artistic Director of the Kiev film Studio name A. Dovzhenko, artistic games and popular scientific film, theatre and television. The Laureate Of The State. prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after T. H. Shevchenko (1982). Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.