Since the beginning of The Great Patriotic War he and his family was evacuated to Tashkent.

Here he first came into contact with the world of cinema, the crowd participated in the famous picture director Leonid Lukov Two Soldiers.

Also in Tashkent he entered the Theatre and Art Institute Alexander Ostrovsky, graduating in 1964.

The first significant work was the role of the actor Nikolay Bauman in eponymous historical-biographical film directed by Semyon Tumanov.

There he spent three years playing in productions of Warsaw Melody (from Alisa Freindlich), The Road to Calvary, The Forty-First.