Born April 3, 1962 in Novosibirsk. In 2007 he graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University. Master of Sports of the USSR (1982).
Joined "Enisey" in 1986 as a player, passed in 1998 to coaching. From 1978 to 1984 he played for Novosibirsk "Locomotiv".