Born on 13 April 1933 in Rudolfs, Daugavpils district, Latvia.
From 1933 to 1940 he lived with his family in Riga, then in Daugavpils. In 1955 he started working for the Zarasai regional newspaper "Pergalė". In 1958 he graduated from the Zarasai Secondary Labour Youth School. In 1963 he graduated from Vilnius Higher Party School. In 1963-1967 he worked again at the Zarasai regional newspaper, and in 1967-1978 at the Klaipėda city newspaper. 1978-1990 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine "Litva literaturnaja" (now "Вильнюс"). Debut in the Latvian press in 1950. Since 1993 lives in Zarasai. He has published short stories and short stories in the press and collections. He has translated more than 60 works by Polish and Lithuanian writers into Russian: V. Kudirka, A. Škėma, A. Vaičiulaitis, R. Sadauskas, R. Granauskas, R. Gavelis, L. Tapinas and others.