He was born in 1901 in Smolensk, Russia. Being in his youth he joined the Zionist organization “He-Halutz”. In the USSR he was a member of several underground Zionist groups, distributing Zionist literature among Jews and encouraging them to flee to Palestine and later to Israel. From 1960 he actively began to organize Zionist cells, supplying them with Zionist literature and news from the State of Israel. Arrested in 1966 and sentenced for his Zionist activities, he spent 4 years in the Gulag. He died in 1986.
