Born on December 4, 1957, in the Kopustanai region (Kazakhstan).
In 1977, he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Theater School in V. Nikolaev's class.
He joined the Sverdlovsk Academic Theater troupe in 1977. From 1978 to 1980, he served in the military, after which he returned to the theater. In 2001, he founded the Koliada Theater.