Painter. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR. Ph. D., Professor.
In 1933 – 1938 he studied at the Art school "Memory of 1905", in 1938, he entered the Academy of Arts in Leningrad, graduated in 1949, a veteran of the TSB.
In 1953 he defended his doctoral thesis. In 1960 he participated in the exhibition "Soviet Russia" (Moscow).