Born 21 May 1943 in Chernogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region, Russia.
From 1962 to 1966 he studied at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Education). From 1978 to 1983 he worked for the Russian-language magazine "Litva literaturnaya". Translated into Russian the works of Lithuanian poets J. Marcinkevičius, M. Martinaitis, E. Mieželaitis, J. Macevičius, R. Skučaitė and others. Writes in Russian.