Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). He graduated from the Higher Theatre School (VTU) named after Shchepkin (1972, V.I. Korshunov's course) and the Higher School of Performing Arts (1995, B.G. Golubovsky's course). He worked at the Rostov Theatre for Young Spectators, at the Rostov Academic Drama Theatre named after Gorky (1980), at the Moscow Academic Theatre named after Mayakovsky, at the Moscow Regional Theatre, and at the Syzran Drama Theatre named after A.

Tolstoy. From 1993 to 1995 he was artistic director of the experimental theatre "Detective", where he staged the plays "The Spider's Web" after A. Christie, "The Swedish Match" and "The Game" after Shaffer. Since 1994 he has been in the troupe of the Pushkin Theatre.