painter. Regional Prize named after M. Rudy (1969). Member of the National State Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (1998). Graduated from the Military Art Studio at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts (1956). During World War II, he was deported to Germany for forced labor. From 1956 in Nedryhaylov: artist of the House of Culture, organized a studio of fine arts. He created still lifes, portraits, genre paintings, landscapes, painted churches.
He participated in regional, all-Ukrainian, international art exhibitions. Personal exhibitions – in Tbilisi, Romny, Sumy, Kyiv. Some works are kept in the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Posullya” (Sumny region), the National Center of Folk Culture “Museum of I. Honchar” (Kyiv). Main works “Shipka Pass. Bulgaria” (1946), “Self-portrait” (1957), “Georgians” (1960s), “On guard” (1961), “S. Garkusha”, “Girls on the river”, “Hanged in Romny” (all – 1962), “Shooting of Jews near the village of Lozova” (1963), “T. Shevchenko at the Ilyinsky Fair (1964), Marichka (1968), Bread (1970), Still Life with Fish (1978), Morning Fog (1985), First Snow (1986), Above the Sula River, Water Mill (both 1987), Holodomor 33 (2001), Golden Harvest (2002), Kobzar, Easter, Church of St. Andrew the First-Called in Khoruzhivka (all 2003), Kalina under the Snow (2004).
