Born in 1947 in Riga, he graduated from Riga Electromechanical Technical school and went on to study for 3 years in the Moscow Art Polygraph Institute., later working as a senior engineer in an experimental factory of art accessories in Riga. Arrested on August 4th, 1970, and tried in May, 1971 at the Riga trial, he was. sentenced to a year of imprisonment in a high security Gulag camp.
From the book: “Anti-Jewish processes in the Soviet Union (1969−1971)”. The editor and author of the commentary—A. Rozhansky. Vol 2.