Born 1922, Tyumen; died 1994, Moscow. In 1939 entered Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. In 1941 was mobilized and participated in fights against Wehrmacht troops under Voronezh, Stalingrad and Kharkov; after being wounded was demobilized. Continued to study at the Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts under Alexander Deineka, concentrating on painting, sculpture and glass painting (1945-1946). On 23 January 1946 was arrested with a group of fellow students (more than forty persons) on charges of anti-Soviet plotting and anti-Soviet propaganda. On 21 September 1946 he was sentenced by the Special panel [OSO] to ten years which served in Ukhtumzhlag (Komi Autonomous Republic) in 1947-1948 and in Steplag (Kazakhstan) in 1949-1951; his camp number was СЖ-660. On 29 December 1954 was released with no right to leave the Balkhash area. A "free" worker at the Balkhash Palace of Culture (stage design, direction, management of the art studio). After being reinstated in 1958 he returned to Moscow. Author of a great quantity of pictures, non-objective and figurative; book illustrator and designer, poster designer; organized national exhibitions in the United States, France, Czechoslovakia, etc. as well as in Soviet museums; author of essays on art. From 1958 on, contributed to more than hundred exhibitions in the Soviet Union and abroad. From 1973, member of the Soviet Artists Union. Concentrated on graphic art, especially on etching.

Lake Balkhash. 1955 29х39