Studied at the Crimean Art College (1976-1979) and the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography (workshop of Gennady Sotnikov, 1983-1988).
He worked as the chief set designer of the Krasnoyarsk Theater of Musical Comedy, the Novgorod Drama Theater, the Drama Theater of the Baltic Fleet.
He is a production designer for more than 70 performances, including:
"Gypsy Baron", Krasnoyarsk Theater of Musical Comedy, dir. M. Kovalchik; "Demons",
"Martha the Posadnitsa", Novgorod Drama Theatre, dir. A. Koshelev; Pannochka, Novgorod Drama Theatre, dir. V. Chernov; Romeo and Juliet, BDT, dir. I. Stavisky; "Henry IV", Baltic House, dir. R. Sotilli; "Twelve Chairs", Baltic House, dir. A. Belinsky; "At the Bottom", "Ivanov", Small Drama Theatre, dir. L. Ehrenburg; "Gypsy Love", Orenburg Theater of Musical Comedy, "Cat's House", Russian Theater of Lithuania, dir. A. Uteganov, The Great Waltz by I. Strauss, Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre, Motley Stories, Zapolyarny Drama Theatre. Mayakovsky, dir. A. Koshelev; "In front of the Women's Coast Guard", Bouff Theatre, dir. M. Smirnov; BalBesy, Boris Godunov, Pushkin Center, dir. I. Stavissky; "Vassa Zheleznova", Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov, dir. L. Ehrenburg.
Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1990.
Since 1991 he has been teaching at the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts.
