Designer, Illustrator of books. He lived at the cottage in Pushkino. He graduated with honors from the Academy of arts in Tbilisi, where he studied under E. E. Lansere, A. A. Charlemagne and postgraduate studies in Moscow state. V. I. Surikov (1939-1941) by D. S. Moore and N. Uh.Radlov. Member of the Union of artists and the Union of journalists of the USSR. Illustrated over three hundred books. Several generations grew up on the books of writers with his illustrations. The participant of the great Patriotic war.