Born on 10 November 1931 in Panevėžys.
In 1948 graduated from Vilnius Adult Gymnasium. 1953 - 1953-1964 - worked as a sailor on fishing boats, became a bosun on a medium trawler. He worked as a translator in Cuba from 1964 to 1967, where he graduated from the John Reed Evening School of Languages in 1966. From 1969 to 1973 he worked as a correspondent for the Moscow News Agency in Canada, where he took French language courses. From 1975 to 1979 he was head of the same agency's bureau in Portugal and from 1981 to 1986 in Spain. 1986-1992 Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Gimtasis krastas". Worked as a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Journalism of Vilnius University. Since 1995 he has been a host of the programme "Afternoon with Algimantas Čekuolis" on Lithuanian Television (LRT). He wrote the script for the documentary film "To Atlanta" (1954). Signatory of the 11 March Act.