Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
People's artist of USSR, member-correspondent of Academy of arts USSR, laureate of the State prize of the USSR, laureate of the prize. John. Nehru, Professor
Nar. hood. Of the USSR (1978), full member AH the USSR (1983). Member of the CPSU(b) since 1942. He graduated from the Repin Institute of arts in (1949), a pupil of V. Lishev, M. Manizer, V. Sinaisky. Participant of exhibitions since 1949. Lived and worked in Moscow. Since 1970, the rector of the Moscow. hood. in-TA. The monuments to Lenin in Leningrad (1956) and Sevastopol (1957), to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow (1980, et al.), memorial ANS. sailors of the battleship "Novorossiysk" (1963), tombstones, etc. Participant in the creation of the Lenin memorial in Ulyanovsk (1967-70). The Winner Of The St. St. (1950).