After the end of the eighth grade, he entered the Physics and Mathematics School No.

30 on Vasilievsky Island and at the same time continued to engage in classical wrestling.

As a thesis work was to stage a performance in the Alexandrinsky Theatre, however, according to Astrakhan himself, after the artistic director of the theater learned that Astrakhan was a Jew, they did not give the play.

He staged performances in various theaters of Russia and abroad, trained at Tovstonogov in Leningrad.

In 2017 he became a member of the jury of 3rd Moscow Jewish Film Festival.