Born on 05 11 1938 in Kaunas.
Died 31 December 2018 in Kaunas. Buried in Petrašiūnai Cemetery.
In 1957 he graduated from secondary school, then served in the Soviet army for almost three years in aviation. After failing to enter journalism, he worked as an apprentice tinsmith, a steam locomotive smoker, an assistant driver, a worker in a soft-surfacing workshop, and from 1963 - as a laboratory technician at the Kaunas Institute of Construction and Architecture (now Kaunas University of Technology).