Actor, director. He studied at the theater department of GITIS (1953-1955), graduated from the acting department of the theater school named after M.S.Schepkin (1959), the directing department of the All-Union Soviet Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1970). In 1959-1961 and 1964-1966 - actor of the Chelyabinsk Drama Theater named after Zwilling, in 1961-1964 - Moscow Theater named after Gogol, in 1966-1968 - Moscow Regional Drama Theater named after A.N. Ostrovsky.