In 1997, he graduated from the Tolyatti branch of the Samara State Pedagogical University. Since 1996, he has been working as a teacher at Children's Art School No. 1 in Zhigulevsk. His teaching experience spans 28 years. From 2002 to 2007, he worked as a lecturer at Tolyatti State University in the Faculty of Fine and Decorative-Applied Arts. Since 2012, he has been a member of the State Examination Commission and involved in the defense of master's theses at TSU, in the Faculty of Fine and Decorative-Applied Arts. In 2020, he was also invited to join the State Examination Commission of the Volga Region Academy of Education and Arts named after Saint Alexius.