Born in the village of Pokrovskoe kotelnichsky district in Kirov region. Member of the Union of artists of Russia since 1961, honored artist of Russia since 1999. He studied at the Odessa art school (1938 - 1939) D. K. Krainev and M. I. Beetle, at the MIPIDI (1948 - 1952), the higher school of industrial art to them. V. I. Mujiji (1952 - 1954), V. I. Ingal, V. A. Sinaisky.
Participant of art exhibitions since 1953. The artist's works are exhibited at the all-Russian, interregional, regional, city and international exhibitions. Solo exhibitions were held in Vologda (1981, 1988), Moscow (1968), Leningrad (1967, 1968, 1976), Cherepovets (1971, 1983, 1990, 1999), Velsk (1970), Kotelnich (1953).
Constantly worked and lived in Cherepovets since 1963. The artist's works are in the Tretyakov gallery, art museums of Kirov, Lviv, Omsk, Smolensk, Dresden and Leipzig (Germany). The main collection of the artist's work is in the Vologda regional picture gallery, Cherepovets Museum Association, represented in museums, nature reserves, museums of local lore of the Vologda region, private collections in Russia and abroad.
The artist worked in the engraving (printmaking, book illustration, book mark), in the techniques linocuts, woodcuts, etchings, copperplate engravings. Worked with graphics in the technique of drawing and watercolor in the genres of portrait, landscape, still life. Major works: a series of engravings - "On the banks of the Vyatka" (1958-1961), a series of engravings "On the banks of the Vyatka" (1962 - 1964), the series "Architectural monuments of the Vologda region" (1965-1967), the illustrations to Vladimir Shergin "Gandvik-icy sea" (1970), illustrations to the book of V. M. Malkov "On the ground Vologda" (1971).
