In 1948 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk School of Film Actors. In 1955 he graduated from the directing department of GITIS. Since 1963 - director at "Soyuzmultfilm" (until 1970 all films were created jointly with M. Kamenetsky).
One of the most prolific masters of domestic animation, creator of a series of films based on G. Oster's fairy tales with regular characters - the monkey, the elephant, the boa and the parrot. He worked exclusively with dolls, and already for his second film - "Whose cones are in the forest?" received a silver medal at the IFF in Romania.