Was born in Kazakhstan. His repertoire includes Don José in Carmen (Bizet), Lensky in Yevgeny Onegin, Herman in Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky), Canio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), the title role in Les Contes des Hoffmann (Offenbach), Ubu Rex (Penderecki), Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Calaf in Turandot (Puccini), Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss), Radames in Aida, Riccardo in Un ballo in Maschera, Manrico in Il trovatore, Ismaele in Nabucco (Verdi), Loge in Das Rheingold (Wagner), Max in Der Freischütz (Weber)and many others. He performs regularly at the opera houses of Poland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Hungary.