A member of the Communist Party, he served as Chairman of the Cherkasy Oblast Council from 1991 to 1992.
He started working in 1959 as a shift agronomist-technologist at the Lebedynskyi seed plant of the Shpola district of the Cherkasy region.
In 1982, he graduated from the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow.
From 1982 to 1991, he was the secretary of the Cherkasy Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on Agriculture.
From September 1991 to April 1992, he was the chairman of the Cherkasy Regional Council of People's Deputies and the chairman of the executive committee of the Cherkasy Regional Council of People's Deputies.