Born in 1960 in military town Aktyubinsk in Astrakhan region.
In 1977 entered the “industrial fish industry” department of
the Astrakhan Technical Institute of Fish Industry. From 1982
worked as a state inspector of the Sea Conventional
Inspection in Magadan. Beginning from1986 worked a camera
assistant, cameraman at the “Film Studio MO USSR”
(Moscow).
In 1989 entered the scriptwriter’s department of
the VGIK (workshop of Alexei Gabrilovich).
Worked as a director, a cameraman, a journalist and a moderator
in various TV projects: ATV, RTVR, DTV, TV-6, TVCentre,
ORT, TNT.