Selected dates:

January 22, 1905

Born in Gorki (Mogilev province of the Russian Empire, today Mogilev region of the Republic of Belarus).

He spent his childhood and youth in Vitebsk . Member of the Civil War on the side of the Red Army.

1921-1922

He studied at the Vitebsk Artistic and Practical Institute with Yudel Pan, then with Kazimir Malevich. Member of UNOVIS.

1922-1925

He studied at the Petrograd (then - Leningrad) VKhUTEMAS .

Since 1922

Lived in Leningrad and worked at the Lenfilm studio. Production designer for more than twenty films, including: "Man overboard" by I. M. Berkhin (1931), "Fedka" by N. I. Lebedev (1936), "Anton Ivanovich is angry" by A. V. Ivanovsky (1941) , "Tiger Tamer" by N. N. Kosheverova and A. V. Ivanovsky (1954), "Mr. X" by Yu. O. Khmelnitsky (1958) and others.

July 12, 1974

Passed away in Leningrad (USSR, today St. Petersburg, Russian Federation).