He was born in a mixed family of ethnic Russian father Nikolay Zakharovich Kosygin and Siberian Tatar mother Mariya Katyrovna Bashirova.

He married a US citizen and in 1990-1991 he studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York, periodically coming to the USSR to participate in the filming.

In 1996 he organized in St. Petersburg studio Deboshirfilm, which is the artistic director and teacher of actor-director's workshop.

The development of the film was supported by Fedor Bondarchuk who took the producer role.

In 2014, he illegally crossed the border of Ukraine in the area not controlled by the Ukrainian government, to support the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic separatists.