Born into a family of farm laborers. From an early age he worked for the local landowner Martens. In the period 1908-1912 he graduated from the parish school in the village of Dmitrievo, Kasimovsky district. From 1912 to 1918 - a laborer at the St. Petersburg Cartridge Plant. In 1917-1918, a Red Guard, a member of the people's squad of the cartridge plant, was among Lenin's guards when he arrived at the Finland Station in April 1917. He took part in the evacuation of the cartridge plant to Simbirsk. From 1919-1922 - a soldier of the Red Army. Participant of the first Finnish war - 1918-1920. Member of the Civil War. A clerk at the headquarters of the 2nd division, 13th rifle regiment, 5th Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army R.S.F.S.R. under the leadership of M.N. Tukhachevsky, Eastern and Southern Front. He fought against the Kornilov shock battalions. In 1922 he was demobilized, returned to his homeland and in the period from 1922 to 1925 was in charge of the Koverskaya hut-reading room. In July 1925 he became a candidate member of the CPSU (b) of the Kasimov Party organization of the Ryazan province, and in July 1926 he became a member of the CPSU (b). From 1933 to 1935 - propagandist of the Zhukovsky district committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, pos. Zhukovka, Oryol region. Graduated in absentia in 1932-1937. Leningrad Political and Educational Institute. NK Krupskaya NK, Faculty of History, specialty teacher of history, propagandist. From 1935 to 1941 - editor and deputy editor of the Leninsky Klich newspaper, Zhukovsky district, Oryol region. From 1934 to 1941 - instructor (sergeant of the State Security Service), head of the department (acts of civil status (OAGS), secretary of the party committee, chairman of the party committee (lieutenant of the State Security Service, see photo, army rank: senior political instructor-captain) of the primary party organization at the NKVD regional department for Zhukovsky district of the Western region, after September 27, 1937, Oryol region.In September 1941, he was mobilized into the ranks of the Red Army as commissar of the battalion (captain) of the 129th separate rifle brigade.September 5, 1942, he was wounded and sent to the military hospital in Volokolamsk After recovering he worked as an agitator for the regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Front.Demobilized in February 1946. Awarded the medal "For Courage" and the Order of the Red Star and other military awards.After the war he worked as a teacher, own correspondent for a number of newspapers, secretary, deputy editor, newspaper editor "Leninsky Klich" Zhukovsky district of the Bryansk region.