Graduated from Zaporozhye Aluminum College (1961). In 1966 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts. A. Lunacharsky (course of People's Artist of the USSR N.V. Pajitnov). He worked at the Ryazan State Drama Theater, the Kazan Bolshoi Drama Theater. V. Kachalov, Simferopol Russian Drama Theater named after. M. Gorky. In 1979-86 he worked at the Kiev Drama and Comedy Theater on the left bank of the Dnieper: first as an actor, and later as an actor, managing director and director of the theater. From 1986 to 2005, he worked in various leadership positions in the field of culture and art, and in a diplomatic position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In 2005 he returned to the stage of the Drama and Comedy Theater on the left bank of the Dnieper.