Born on February 14, 1979 in the city of Arzamas-16, Gorky Oblast (now the city of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast). Graduated from GITIS (Directing Department, Mark Zakharov's workshop) and VGIK (Producing and Economics Department, Alexander Akopov's workshop).

As a directing teacher, he taught acting at VGIK (Andrei Panin's workshop) and RATI (Oleg Kudryashov's workshop). He staged several performances on the stage of the ApARTe theater and at the School of Modern Play. He worked in television; in cinema he started as an author of short films. He gained wide fame as the director of the film Gorko!.