He graduated from the directing department of VGIK (1948, workshop of S. A. Gerasimov and T. F. Makarova).
Assistant director on the film "Young Guard" and second director for "Country Doctor" (directed by Sergei Gerasimov). At the same time, he worked at the Gorky film station.
He worked at the Leningrad studio of n / a films, since 1955 - at the cinema studio "Lenfilm".
