I spent first 16 years of my life in the Urals and in Siberia. I studied in the Design College of St .-Petersburg and in Moscow State University of Printing Arts. I worked at a fitter at a factory, a retoucher in a newspaper, I cast forms at a printing plant, was a street sweeper, painter, political party expert, Art Director at a publishing house. I decorated fish processing plants in Kamchatka, drowned in the Pacific Ocean, built Trans-Siberian Railway, owned a design studio, was at the Abhasian war twice, where I took a stroll through a mine field, was a President of a Graphic Designers Club, graved bookplates (ex-libris), drove on a destroyed mountain road at night in the Crimea, lived on an abandoned settlement in Latvia, put out fires in Zabaikal highlands, played soccer in a children's major soccer league. Won about 20 graphic art competitions in Russia, including the Art of Book and about 10 international competitions. I am a member of professional organizations both as a journalist and as a creative artist.
      I am a graphic designer, illustrator, journalist, published author, entomologist, collector, geographer, tailor, photographer, graver. I specialize in book design, coffee and cigarettes.
     I live now in Stavropol in the North Caucasus in a house that is 170 years old.