Graduated from Zaporozhye Aluminum College (1961). In 1966 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts. A. Lunacharsky (course of People's Artist of the USSR N.V. Pajitnov). He worked at the Ryazan State Drama Theater, the Kazan Bolshoi Drama Theater. V. Kachalov, Simferopol Russian Drama Theater named after. M. Gorky. In 1979-86 he worked at the Kiev Drama and Comedy Theater on the left bank of the Dnieper: first