1937 – Born in Doni Nakhijevan (Rostov-on-Don).
1954-1959 – Studied at the Rostov School of Fine Arts.
1959 – Moved to Armenia with the advice and support of Martiros Sarian. Enrolled at the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and Theater.
1963-1965 – Participated in numerous ethnographic expeditions organized by the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in all regions of Armenia.
From 1965 – Diploma winner in graphic arts at the II Youth Competition (Armenia).
Member of the Union of Artists of Armenia.
1992 – Initiated and redesigned the details for the new coat of arms of the First Republic of Armenia, officially adopted by the Armenian Parliament.
1994 – Died in Yerevan.
From 1964 – Permanent participant in annual exhibitions organized by the Union of Artists of Armenia.
1978 – Exhibitions “Colors of Armenia” and “Eight Armenian Painters” at the “Drouant” gallery, Paris.
The same exhibitions at the AGBU gallery, New York.
1979 – Exhibition of Armenian Painting at the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
1992 – “Four Armenian Abstract Painters,” Hovhannes Tumanyan House-Museum, Yerevan.
1994 – Armenian Culture and Art, Bochum, Germany.
“Abstract Art in Armenia,” Union of Artists, Yerevan.
1998 – “Abstractions: An Inside View,” Charlie Khachatryan Gallery, Yerevan.
Solo Exhibitions:
1966 – Union of Architects, Yerevan.
1967 – White Hall of the “Komsomolskaya Pravda” newspaper, Moscow.
1967-1972 – Exhibitions in various cities of Armenia.
1975 – Union of Cinematographers, Yerevan.
1982 – Union of Artists of Armenia, Yerevan.
1983 – Ejmiatsin, Armenia.
1987 – “Punkt” gallery, Gdansk, Poland.
His works are housed in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Yerevan), the National Gallery of Armenia, the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Museum of the Peoples of the East (Moscow), the Gnessin State Musical College (Moscow), the Nonconformist Art Museum (Washington), and numerous private collections in Armenia and abroad.