He was born in the village of Yekaterinoslavka in 1941 and grew up in the town of Shimanovsk, Amur Oblast.
In 1969, he graduated from the Omsk Polytechnic College and taught the basics of artistic design in the College for more than twenty years.
Since 1990, he has been an employee of the Omsk National Technical University Museum of History. He worked in the field of decorative and applied art and graphics.
“Calligraphy is not only the art of beautiful writing, it is the past, the present and the future. A skillfully designed message shapes the attitude to what is written. This is the indicator of spiritual, moral, and cultural development of the community. The absence of basic skills of beautiful and literate writing testifies to cultural deterioration”.