He graduated from Omsk Institute of Agriculture, worked in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Institute for Plants Protection (Vsesoyuznij Institut Zaschity Rastenij, 1929-1938), Leningrad Agricultural Institute (1938-1968) and in Institute for Zoology of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences (since 1948).
He was one of the editors of Keys to the Insects of the European part of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Leningrad, Nauka and Fauna of the European part of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Leningrad, Nauka.(also published in English by Amerind Publishing, New Delhi.
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics]
He was a Stalin Prize-winner (1952), Corresponding member of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences (since 1953) the Chairman of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Entomology Society (since 1966).
