Selected dates:

March 11 (24), 1908

Born in the village of Zverovichi , Vitebsk province (RSFSR, now a village in the Smolensk region, Russia).

1930

Graduated from the painting department of the Vitebsk Art College.

1955-1968

He taught at the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute (now the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.

1955

Presentation of the monument to the Belarusian printing pioneer Francysk Skaryna at VDNKh in Moscow, on which the sculptor worked for a long time.

Was awarded the title of People's Artist of the BSSR .

1967

He created a model of the monument to Skaryna for Polotsk (a city in Belarus). He did not have time to cast a bronze sculpture; his students, sculptors Igor Glebov and Andrey Zaspitsky, did it for him.

1976

The State Prize of the BSSR was posthumously awarded for the monument to Francysk Skaryna in Polotsk.

October 2, 1968

Died in Minsk.