He also worked in the group Voskreseniye and led a program on television and radio.

[3] In 1976 he graduated from the conducting and choral department at the Music College at the Moscow Conservatory.

[3] In 1987-1990 he worked on a personal project: the "Free Flight" (Russian: «Свободный полет») show club.

[3] In 2000 he worked as a DJ in the program "Hooligan show" (Russian: «Хулиган-шоу») on the radio station Silver Rain.

From 1985 to 2005 he was married to Svetlana Samoilova, in 1987 they had two twin daughters Anastasia (died of cancer in 2003) and Anna.