Born in Russia. Production designer for Soviet films from the 1940s through the 1980s. Notable credits include TRI VSTRECHI / THREE ENCOUNTERS and MICHURIN (both 1948), SMELYE LYUDI / THE HORSEMEN (1950), PRSHEVALSKY (1951), VIKHRI VRAZHDEBRIYE / HOSTILE WHIRLWINDS (1953), PERVYY ESHELON / THE FIRST ECHELON and GEROITE NA SHIPKA / HEROES OF SHIPKA (both 1955), KOMMUNIST (1958), KAZAKI / THE COSSACKS (1961), GUSARSKAYA BALLADA / BALLAD OF A HUSSAR (1962), the epic four-part VOYNA I MIR / WAR AND PEACE (1965-1967), TSVETY ZAPOZDALYE / BELATED FLOWERS (1969), DELA SERDECHNYE / MATTERS OF THE HEART (1973), POSLEDNYAYA SHERTVA / THE LAST VICTIM (1975), GOROD PRINYAL (1979), TAKIYE ZHE, KAK MY! (1980), OT ZIMY DO ZIMI / FROM WINTER TO WINTER (1981), TIKHIYE VODY GLUBOKI (1984), TRETYE POKOLENIYE (1985), and his last film, NAYEZDNIKI (1987).  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration 1968: VOYNA I MIR (WAR AND PEACE) - Art Direction (w. Mikhail Bogdanov) 1 nomination