[1] His music is featured in a number of operas, ballets, stage performances, and films.

He composed the scores for more than a hundred cinema and television films, including Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (1985), We Are from Jazz (1983) and Neznayka with Our Court (1983).

He attended the Merzlyakovki Conservatory School where he studied composition under Nikolay Sidelnikov.

[3][4] A song by Minkov based on the lyrics Invisible struggle (translit.

Nezrimiy Boi - If somebody, somewhere among us, sometimes...) by Anatoly Gorokhov is featured in almost all the series.