Was born on October, 10, 1903 in Kamyshin. Gurov - the master of a portrait genre and picturesque landscapes of Volga.

In the creativity repeatedly came back to genre work "Gorky on the Volga ". In conditional traditional character of painting the tonality of his works goes from the best sources of the Saratov school of the painting which has steadily existed till 30th years of the last century.