He was born in the village of Karasikha, Belogorsky district, Khmelnitsky region. He graduated from the Zhytomyr Agricultural Institute (1964, with honors, worked there for a while as a junior researcher) and postgraduate studies at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Horticulture (1966-1969).

In 1969-1971, he was a junior researcher at the Institute of Microbiology and Virology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1971-1974, Deputy Director for Scientific Work at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology.

Since 1974, Director of the Institute of Agricultural Microbiology (1974-1986). At the time of appointment, he was the youngest director of the academic Research Institute.

Doctor of Biological Sciences (1982), Professor (1982), Corresponding Member of VASHNIL (1983).

He led research on the use of biological factors in intensive conditions. Under his leadership and with his direct participation, a collection of nodule bacteria was created, which was included in the world catalog of Rhizobium and provides the production of nodule bacteria preparations; a new highly effective preparation of nodule bacteria was created — rhizotorphin.

He has received more than 20 copyright certificates for inventions.

He was buried at the Kazan Cemetery in Pushkin.