Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Born in Tver Province in the family of Ivan Noskov (1902). Studied under
Kazimir Malevich at the Vitebsk School of Art (1920–22). Member of UNOVIS (1920). Travelled with
Vera Yermolaeva,
Anna Kagan and Mikhail Veksler to Petrograd (1922), where he enrolled at the VKhUTEIN (1922). Moved to Moscow and studied sculpture at the VKhUTEMAS (1923).