Career
He spent much of his playing career between 1935 and 1947 at Spartak Moscow although during the Great Patriotic War in 1941 played for Zenit Moscow and MVO Moscow in 1945. At the end of the football career he began a career as coach. In the years 1948-1951 he led Spartak Vilnius, and from June to the end of 1951 managed Spartak Moscow.
From 1953 to June 1954 he trained Metalurh Zaporizhya.
In 1955 he helped to train the second team of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. From 1955-1959 he held a position of the National Football Coach of the Department of Sports Committee of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1959, he became a coach of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics national team and in 1964 he led the youth team of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. In the years 1963-1968 he also worked as a senior coach at FSzM Moscow. He died on November 18 1968 in Moscow.
He was also bronze medalist in the First Division of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1949 and 1950 as a coach.