Boris Shcherbakov was born in Vasilyevsky Island, Leningrad, on December 11, 1949, his father was a chauffeur and mother a factory worker.

The Shcherbakov family consisted of five people, who lived in a sixteen-meter communal flat in Opochinin's street on Vasilyevsky Island.

The room window looked out onto the Gulf of Finland, to which were ships, and Boris dreamed of what it would be like to become a captain and travel.

[5] At the age of 12, Boris was selected for the role of Glebka Prokhorov in the children's adventure film Mandate.

Boris Shcherbakov is fond of repoussé and chasing, woodcarving and in 2009 was admitted to the Moscow Union of Artists in the section of arts and crafts.

[6] The wife of Boris Shcherbakov is Tatyana Bronzova, an actress, writer, head of the Moscow Art Theater's troupe between the years 1991-2001.