There was a journalist who headed the regional Komsomol newspaper Young Leninist, worked in a factory.

Since 1961 editor of the Kaluga publishing house, he became the initiator and member of the editorial board of the famous almanac Tarusa Pages.

In the same year he moved to Moscow and was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.

[4] During perestroika is one of the founders of the movement April, support the policies of Gorbachev.

[5] Member of the editorial board of the journals Russkoye Bogatstvo (1991–95) and Day and Night.