Soviet Ukrainian painter. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. He was born in 1937 at the station Olkhovaya, Lugansk region. In 1965 he graduated from the Kiev State Art Institute. Member of regional, republican exhibitions since 1965. Member of the USSR from the 1970s. Lived and worked in the city of Lugansk. The author of landscapes, still lifes and subject-thematic paintings. works of the painter are represented in many public and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.