[2] In 1958 he graduated from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (class of Leonid Volkov).

He taught at Moscow State University and was working as a teacher at the International Slavic Institute of Derzhavin.

His debut film role as Aleksey Gromov was in the movie Stokes in a Door (1958).

For solo concerts, he has travelled all over Russia and about 30 countries (including US, Canada, Spain, France, Finland and Sweden).

For several years he headed the jury of the All-Russian Theatre Festival named Nikolai Rybakov in Tambov.