1924, Makeevka - 2002, St Petersburg

Painter, genre artist, portraitist and landscapist. Studied under E. Luzhkovsky at the First Children''''s School of Art in Leningrad (1939–1941), under
V. Sokolov at the Secondary School of Art (1941‒1942,1945–1947), under Boris Johanson and L. Zaitsev at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1947–1953) and in Alexander Gerasimov''''s studio at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1953‒1957). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1953). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1968).