Born on 14 February 1931 in Shishkino, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. Died on 01.10.2017 in Vilnius, buried in Karveliškės Cemetery.
He left his parents' home early and worked various jobs in the post-war years, from a loader to a steam locomotive driver's assistant. He graduated from the evening section of the Secondary School of Labour Youth in Dnipropetrovsk. From 1952 to 1955 he did his military service in Odessa, where he attended classes of the literary association organised by the editorial office of the newspaper "Zashchitnik Rodiny". After demobilisation he came to Lithuania. From 1978 to 1991 he worked as deputy editor of the Vilnius district newspaper "Draugystė". He belonged to the literary association headed by G. Kanovičius. From 1981 he was a member of the Journalists' Union of the Lithuanian SSR, collaborated in Russian-language periodicals, where many of the author's articles, reports, poems and short stories were published. His first poem was written and published in 1946 in the Dnipropetrovsk regional newspaper "Urozhay". In Lithuania, he began publishing poems in 1969 in the Vilnius district newspaper "Draugystė". He is currently the head of the Lithuanian Russian Writers Association.