[4] Born in Alma-Ata, USSR and being interested in sports, Borovsky started playing tennis at school, taking part in competitions with Anna Dmitrieva.

Since the late 1950s, Borovsky began to try sports journalism: he prepared small materials and notes for the sports editors of various media and for some time collaborated with Radio in the Soviet Union.

[3] In 1962 he graduated from the Moscow Technological Institute of Food Industry.

In 1998, Borovsky along with a group of colleagues organized the first sport radio station in the country and spent two years working on it.

[7] Borovsky had four children: Elena (1971), Vladimir and Fedor (both 1976), and Ivan (1989).