Thesis in the CVC - "Volgar" rating - excellent. The training took place at the sculpture faculty. Qualification of artist-sculptor.
Member of the Union of artists of the USSR. Honored artist of the RSFSR, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of arts, laureate of the State prize of the USSR.
He graduated from the Repin Institute of arts in (1958). A participant of the war. Lived and worked in Leningrad. In 1975-86 before. LO THE UNION OF ARTISTS OF USSR. Easel and monumental sculptures, including the monument "Legendary Tachanka" (near Kakhovka, 1967), "the Valiant defenders of the Soviet North" (Arkhangelsk, 1985).