Participant of the Russian-Japanese, World War I (senior noncommissioned officer, warrant officer, Complete Knight of the Order of St.George), Civil War; participant of the Great Patriotic War and the battle for the Caucasus. He served in the Novorossiysk partisan unit. After the war he worked in leading Soviet positions in the administration of the Krasnoarmeisky, Psebaysky, Tula, Arkhangelsk regional executive commissions of the Krasnodar Territory ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")