Born 1935, Leningrad

Painter. Studied at the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren (1945), Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1946–1953) and the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1953–1962, with interval). Post-graduate student at the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1964– 1967). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1963).