Born in the village Osinovka Saratov region into a peasant family in 1931, the family moved to Samara. First lessons in drawing and painting in a studio he got old Samara artists GP Podbelskogo and PA Krasnov. From 1939 to 1944 he studied at the Moscow Art School and in 1950 graduated from the Moscow Art Institute. VI Surikov, where he worked in the studio of the famous Soviet artist GG Ryazhsky. In Samara (then Kuibyshev) Purygin back in 1951. Together with GV Filatov, IE Komissarov, AA Kulakowski,...