Since 1937 — participant of exhibitions (exhibition of Moscow sculptors). Exhibited: "XX years of the red army and the Military-Морского Navy" (1938), the all-Union exhibition of young artists dedicated to the 20-летию the Komsomol (1939), sculpture MSH (1940), "Young artists of the RSFSR" (1941), "the Great Patriotic war" (1943), military artists Studio М. Б. Грекова (1946, 1963), all-Union art exhibitions (1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958 — "40 лет of the Komsomol", 1961, 1965 — "On guard for peace", 1967 — "50 лет of the Soviet authority of the RSFSR"), the spring exhibitions of Moscow artists (1947, 1948), "30 лет of the Soviet armed forces" (1948), exhibitions of works by academicians and members-корреспондентов Academy of arts of the USSR (1957, 1962), exhibition 1-му all-Union Congress of Soviet artists (1957), "40 лет of the Soviet armed forces" (1958), "Our contemporary" (1959), the Republican art exhibition "Soviet Russia" (1960, 1965, 1967), "Moscow — the capital of our country" (1964), an art exhibition by 25-летию of the defeat of the-фашистских troops near Moscow (1966), "Artists of Moscow — 50-летию of October" (1967) in Moscow and other.

the Exhibitor of many international exhibitions: World in Paris (1937, gold medal for the song "the Partisan", "Voroshilov on a horse") and Brussels (1958, Grand Prix-при for a portrait Ж.-К. Штробля and the song "swords into plowshares!"), as well as exhibitions in India (1951), China (1954), Italy (1956), Yugoslavia (1959), Sweden (1964) and others.

his personal exhibitions were Held in Moscow, Leningrad, Rostov-на-Дону (1959), Volgograd (1961), Magdeburg, Dresden, Berlin (1970), Volgograd, Moscow, Kiev (1971), Budapest (1972).

a member (since 1953), Vice-президент of the USSR Academy of arts (1970-1974). People's artist of the RSFSR (1951), people's artist of the USSR (from 1959), honored art worker of the Kazakh SSR (1957). Winner of five Stalin (State) prize of the USSR (1946 — for the portrait И. Д. Черняховского; 1947 — for the monument М. Г. Ефремову; 1948 — for the portrait В. И. Чуйкова; 1949 — for portraits Т. Т. Хрюкина and Н. Ниязова, 1950 — for the monument "to the Soviet army Soldiers who fell in the struggle against fascism" in Berlin); prize. Jawaharlal Nehru (1968, with the portraits of Indian political leaders); Lenin prize (1970, for a monument "to Heroes of Stalingrad battle").

the author of the book "the Artist and the life" (M., 1963), of several articles on Soviet fine art.

Posthumous solo exhibition was held in Sofia, Bratislava, Moscow (all — 1975), Belgrade (1976), Bucharest (1978).

Work is represented in many Museum collections, among them — of the State Tretyakov gallery, the State Central Museum of contemporary history of Russia, State Russian Museum, Kyiv national Museum of Russian art, State Museum of arts of Kazakhstan named. А. Кастеева and others.

Sources:

1. The state Tretyakov gallery. The collection catalogue. Sculpture of the first half of the twentieth century. Moscow, 2002, vol. 2. S. 139-144.

2. Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1972, vol. 2. P. 362-363.