[2] He was born on January 21, 1912, in the city of Glukhov, Chernihiv province (now the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine) into a Jewish family.

[3] After graduating from evening school, he was deputy editor of the Sumy newspaper "Plow and Molot" (Серп и молот), and then secretary of the Komsomol committee at the state farm “III International”.

On September 24, 1943, near the village of Trakhtemyriv, Kanevsky district, Cherkasy Oblast, he crossed the Dnieper.

At a critical moment, he led the tank towards the enemy, enticing his comrades by personal example, and turned the tide of an already lost battle.

[4] He died on October 22, 1943, in the offensive[4] near the village of Khodorov (Mironovsky district, Kiev region).