Born on August 3, 1921 in Kuršėnai. Died on February 6, 2017 in Vilnius.
in 1941 completed the Savišvieta high school course. During the war, he moved to Russia, worked at Moscow Radio, in the editorial office of Lithuanian broadcasts. 1941-1944 Red Army soldier. 1944-1949 worked at Kaunas Radio, was the chairman of the radio committee. 1949-1969 was the editor-in-chief of "Literature and art". 1951-1956 studied at the M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. 1952-1954 was secretary of the board of the Writers' Union of the Lithuanian SSR. 1958-1960 Member of the LKP Audit Commission. 1969-1986 was the editor-in-chief of "Gimtoj krasta". 1986-1990 Chairman of the Peace Defense Committee of the Lithuanian SSR. His works have been included in numerous collections of poems and collections of songs based on his texts. He translated the works of A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, A. Akhmatova and other authors from Russian.