during the great Patriotic war remained in Moscow. Collaborated in the "Windows TASS". He drew a series of works "war", "Defense of Odessa", "Defense of Sevastopol". Created of the painting: "the Battle over the Barents sea" (1942), "Leningrad highway" (1943), "Anti-aircraft battery Dynamo" (1943), "Marines" (1945).

After the war, the summer months spent in your own boat on the Canal. Moscow. Created: "Moscow — Volga" (1945), "Demetrius gateway", "Evening Moscow" (both — 1946), "Spring in Moscow" (1947), "Upper Volga" (1948). Author of landscapes, "Moscow spaces" (1946), "Moscow. February" (1947), "the Depot" (1949), "Moscow Rokada" (1957).

Performed the illustrations for the book "Sea soul" Л. С. Соболева (1936), А. С. Новикова-Прибоя "Tsushima" (1945).

From 1930 — participant of exhibitions (exhibition of works of revolutionary and Soviet themes in Moscow). Member of mosskh (SSH, MOSH). He exposed his works at exhibitions: the anti-imperialist exhibition dedicated to International Red day (1931), a monumental-живописных mural (1932), "XV years of the red army" (1933), exhibition of artists, seconded by the Sovnarkom of the RSFSR, the people's Commissariat for education, "Vsekohudozhnik" and mosskh in the USSR in 1933 году (1934), spring exhibition of Moscow artists (1935), all-Union art exhibitions (1939 — "industry of socialism", 1946, 1950, 1955), "The works of Moscow artists during the great Patriotic war" (1942), "the Red Army against German-фашистскими invaders" (1943), landscape (1944), "30 лет of the Soviet armed forces" (1948), a "40 лет of the Soviet armed forces" (1958) in Moscow; art exhibition in Vladivostok (1931); "Artists of the RSFSR for XV years" (1932), "200 лет Academy of arts of the USSR" (1957) in Leningrad and others.

he participated in several international exhibitions: "World of tomorrow" in new-Йорке (1939), 28-й Biennale in Venice (1956), world exhibition in Brussels (1958); Soviet art in Warsaw (1951), Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, (1952), Prague, Bratislava, Brno (1954), Damascus, Beirut, Cairo (1955), London (1957).

Personal exhibitions in Moscow (1950, 1959 — "On the expanses of the homeland").

the Honored worker of arts of RSFSR, people's artist of the RFSR (1965), member of the Academy of arts of the USSR (1958). Winner of the Stalin (State) prize of the USSR 3-й degree for the painting "Distant shores", "Landscape with lighthouse", "Port Odessa" (1951); awarded the silver medal of the USSR Academy of arts for his painting "the far East" (1964).

he was Buried at Kuntsevo cemetery in Moscow.

Work is represented in major Museum collections, including the State Tretyakov gallery, the State Russian Museum and others.