Ukrainian singer (baritone). 1967 - Honored, People's Artist of the RSFSR - 1973.
From his biography
In 1958 he graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory.
He worked in the opera houses of Perm and Novosibirsk. In 1975-1984, he worked at the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theater.
In 1978, he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize together with Dankevych, Varivoda, Arefiev, Kiosse, Surzhyna, and Ukrainsky for the opera Bohdan Khmelnytsky in a new version at the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theater.
He performed the following roles:
Igor - "Prince Igor" by Alexander Borodin,
Germon - "La Traviata",
Renato, "The Masquerade Ball",
Di Luna, La trovatore,
di Posa, Don Carlos, and operas by Giuseppe Verdi,
Valentin - Faust by Gounod,
Bohdan Khmelnytsky - opera by Konstantin Dankevich,
Frederick - "Lakmé" by L. Delibes,
Timofey - "The Raised Virgin Land" by Dzerzhinsky,
Silvio - La Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo,
Papageno - The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart,
Marcel - La bohème by Giacomo Puccini,
Figaro (The Barber of Seville) by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini,
Mazepa, Mazepa,
Onegin, Onegin,
Eletsky, "The Guilty Beauty",
Lionel, The Maid of Orleans,
Robert, Iolanta - operas by Pyotr Tchaikovsky,
Gavrilov - "Not Only Love" by R. K. Shchedrin.
He starred in the film-opera Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1978).
