He grew up in the city of Frunze, and after graduating from the local aeroclub in 1939 and completing his tenth grade of secondary education in 1940 he entered the Soviet Military in April that year.

On one flight he managed to suppress incoming fire from a high-caliber anti-aircraft battery before he bombed an enemy crossing on the river with a high degree of precision.

[5] For completing 155 ground attack missions flying an Il-2, he was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 27 June 1944.

By the end of the war he had flown 305 sorties on the Il-2; in addition to attacking ground targets on those missions he had personally shot down four Bf 109, one Ju 87, and gained two group aerial victories.

In 1950 he graduated from the Air Force Academy in Monino, after which he served as the deputy commander of an assault aviation regiment in the Kiev area.

In 1953 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and starting in March 1956 he taught at a military aviation school in Krasnodar.

From 1971 to 1974 he worked as the deputy manager of the Kazstalmontazh project, and from 1974 to 1976 he was the assistant to the chairman of the State Construction Committee of the Kazakh SSR.