1950, USSR (Russia, Far East)
Lives in Cape Town, South Africa, since 1992

Preferred media:
Monotype, oil, photography, etching

Achievements:
1967 - 1972
University of Foreign Languages
Kiev, USSR, Ukraine
BA Linguistics (English & French) Honours Graduate;
1975 - 1981
Ukrainian Academy of Printing & Publishing
Kiev, USSR, Ukraine
BA Art & Book Design, Honours Graduate

Occupations:
1976 -1991
Ukrainian Publishing Houses - artist, book designer and illustrator, art editor.
From 1992
Marvol Museum of Russian Art & Culture, Cape Town, South Africa - managing director and curator.

Exhibitions: 
1980 - 1991 - Numerous exhibitions of book design and illustration in Kiev, Moscow, Lvov etc, USSR;
1985 Museum of Books & Printing, Kiev, Ukraine;
1986 International Book Art Exhibition, Leipzig, Germany;
1987 "Type Art of the USSR", New York (UN), USA;
1987 "Youth Exhibition", Moscow, USSR;
1990 "Kinesis" Fribourg, Switzerland;
1991 "Contemporary Ukrainian Art", Marsvinsholm, Sweden;
1991 "Les Monotypes", Geneva, Switzerland;
1991 "Le Vol", Geneva, Switzerland;
1991 "Contemporary Russian Art", Gregory Gallery, Washington DC, USA;
1992 "L'Utopie sans Illusion" Fribourg, Switzerland;
1992 "New Wave" New York, USA;
1993 "Reconciliation" Potcheftsroom, South Africa;
1995 "Five Years in South Africa" Marvol Museum, Cape Town, South Africa;
2000 "Cape Town that I Love" Cape Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

Collections:
Ukraine, Russia, USA, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, South Africa.