1941 born in Perm region to where his family was evacuated during the World War II
from 1945 has lived and worked in Leningrad/St.Petersburg.
He has received no education from state art schools
At present a member and deputy chairman of the St.Petersburg Department of the International Federation of Artists

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Museum of Unofficial Soviet Art in Jersey City, USA
1989 The Edward Nakhamkin Gallery, New York, USA
1992 Central Exhibition Hall 'Manege', St.Petersburg;
-Mari-Therese Cochin Gallery, Paris, France
1996 State Hermitage, St.Petersburg


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
from 1987 annual exhibitions of Petersburg artists in the Central Exhibition Hall 'Manege', St.Petersburg
from 1991 annual exhibitions of Petersburg artists, Diagilev Art Centre, St.Petersburg
1990 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
-New Acquisitions, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
1994-96 Self-Identification. Positions in St.Petersburg Art from 1970 until Today, Kiel, Berlin, Oslo, Sopot, St.Petersburg, Copenhagen
1995 CGER Gallery, Brussels, Belgium;
-From GULAG to Glasnost, University of New Jersey, USA;
-Alexander Gleser Collection, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow;
-The Artist and The Poet, Memorial Flat of Alexander Pushkin, St.Petersburg

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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COLLECTIONS:
Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
Museum of the History of St.Petersburg, St.Petersburg
Dostoyevsky Literary Memorial Museum, St.Petersburg
Diagilev Art Centre, St.Petersburg
AOK-Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Mari-Therese Cochin Gallery, Paris, France
Rutgers Museum, New Jersey, USA