Born in Komsomolsk on Amur (Khabarovsk Krai). Graduated from the Vladivostok Academy of Arts in 2002. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers from 2002. Mariinsky Theatre Soloist since 2007.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes: Khrushchev the Boyar, Jesuit (Boris Godunov), Minion (Khovanshchina), Triquet (Eugene Onegin), Drunken Cossack (Mazepa), Balakin (The Enchantress), 1st Herald (The Snow Maiden), Japanese Ambassador (Le rossignol), Hunch-Backed Gambler (The Gambler), Policeman, Gentleman (The Nose), Prince Andrei's Envoy (War and Peace), Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov), Trabuco (La forza del destino), Royal Herald (Don Carlo), Messenger (Aida), Spoletta (Tosca), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Pong (Turandot), Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro), Monostatos (Mozart's Die Zauberflote), Knight of Brabant (Lohengrin), Officer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Young Servant (Elektra).
His concert repertoire includes Ivan Afanasievich (Musorgsky's Sorochintsy Fair) and the Notary (Don Pasquale).
Has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to the UK, Sweden, Finland and Spain as well as independently to China and Japan. Took part in the Mikkeli International Festival (Finland, 2003), where he performed as Kochkarov in Musorgsky's The Marriage and as Vyrin in Smelkov's The Station Guard.