Selected dates:

January 28 (February 10), 1914

Born at the Shumikha station of Kamennaya volost, Chelyabinsk district, Orenburg province (now the city of Shumikha, Kurgan region, Russian Federation).

1932

He graduated from the private art school of Nikolai Pavlovich Shlein in Kostroma.

1938

Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (now the Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, St. Petersburg). Later he transferred to the theater and scenery department.

1938-1951

He was the chief artist of the Tajik Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.

1951-1955

He worked as the chief artist of the Moscow Mayakovsky Theatre.

1953-1955

He worked as an adviser to the Romanian Ministry of Culture and at the same time as a production designer at the Bucharest Opera House.

1955-1959

He worked as the chief artist of the Chelyabinsk Opera and Ballet Theater named after Glinka.

1956

Joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1959-1976

He worked as the chief artist of the State Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the BSSR.

1960-1991

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

1963

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

February 28, 2006

Died in Minsk. Buried in East Cemetery.