Was born in 1961 in Sverdlovsk. (Russia). Graduated The Design School. Since 1987 has been taking part in 21 exhibitions, 4 of which were his personal ones. Works in easel painting technique. Main preferences: still lives, landscapes.

He is a Children Painting Studio Art Director and an informal painters union “The Surikova,31” member.

"We have return to the real painting, meaning classic art with great masters of past ahead. Every master has his own amateurs, his buyers… and hopefully works of realism style are demanded now, despite of contemporary art environment, where the modernism trends are premium and that is the evidence of pure Russian traditional painting school revival.”