Born on the VolgaBaltic Canal and spent all his childhood in the Far East in the city of Shimanovsk In 1982 he graduated from the Irkutsk Theater School In 1984 after serving in the army he immediately entered the 3rd year of GITIS the course of Oleg Tabakov At the end in 1986 he was accepted into the troupe of the Oleg Tabakov Theater TV presenter of the program Country Hour on the channel Russia1 Honored Artist of Russia 1995