Career
Born in 1927 in the family of a worker He started working at one of the Saratov plants, where he worked as a planer and, then, as an electrician. From 1958 to 1961, he worked as a head of the Press Section and, then, as a head deputy of the Propaganda and Agitation Division of the Central Committee of VLKSM. At the later phase of his life, he was an Editor-in-Chief deputy and Editor-in-Chief for three Soviet magazines including "Filateliya USSR" (1968–1974).
