1955 — born on 4 January in the village of Tykhenkyi, Krasnodar Territory (Russia).
1982 — graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute and started his teaching career there.
1986 — completed an assistantship-training at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin.
1989—1993 — Head of the Kyiv Organisation of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, was repeatedly elected a member of the Board of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, Secretary of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
1997—2001 — Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine. 
Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.  
Honorary Professor of the Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (China, Tianhua) and the University of Natural Sciences and Technology (China, Hangzhou). 

Artworks

●  «Commemoration» (1989)● «Easter» (1990)● «The Kuban Wedding» (2001)● «Meeting of I. Mazepa with Charles XII» (2001)● «Women of Kyoto» (1989)● «In the Steppes near Kherson» (1972)● «Silence» (1983)● «Koliivshchyna», «Haydamaks», «Springtime», «A Dream by the Sea» (1990)● «The Game of Angels» (1991)● «Childhood», «Melody», «Ukrainian Landscape», «Female Portrait», «Chinese Artist's Workshop», «Charming Li Wei» (1998)● «The Kuban Wedding», «In the Workshop», «The Naked», «Woman», «Female Portrait in a Black Hat», «On Stage», «Woman of the South of China», «Green Sunday», «In a Red Dragon», «In a Dressing Room», «Family Portrait in Oriental Dress» (1998), «Geisha and Samurai» (1998) ● portraits: Oksana Poltavets, Bohdan Beniuk, Raisa Nedashkivska, Sofia Rotaru, Olha Sumska; graphics: "At the Spring" (2000) "Girl with a Fan" (2000), "Love" diptych (2000).