He was born on 30 April, 1967. From 1977-1985, he trained at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow, from which he graduated with an honorary diploma with first-class honors.

From 1985-1994, he was solo dancer at the Moscow Classical Ballet Company.
From 1992-1994, he was a student at the faculty of ballet teaching, at The State Institute of the Performing Arts (GITIS).
From 1994-1997, he was a member of Bonn Opera Ballet Company (artistic director Valery Panov).
Since 1996, he has been Master Teacher at the Ballet Intensive summer courses, in the USA (New York, Chicago, Detroit, Florida).
Since 1997, he has been a member of the Berlin State Opera Ballet Company.
From 2001-2003, he was Pas de deux teacher at the State Ballet School, Berlin.
From 2001-2006, he studied, and was given a diploma in, ballet teaching at the New Humanitarium University.
From 2001-2007, he was teacher of ballet at the Berlin State Opera Company, and also at the State Ballet, Berlin.
Since 2007, he has been teacher of ballet at the Paris National Opera.

He has been guest ballet teacher at the following companies: Stuttgart Ballet, Ballet of Semperoper Dresden, Ballet of Deutschen Oper am Rhein, Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. Pina Bausch company, Wuppertal. Royal ballet London, Vienna  State ballet. Tokyo ballet, and many others.