In 1974, he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Ust-Kamenogorsk Pedagogical Institute with a degree in "Teacher of Russian Language and Literature." In 1978, he entered the Scriptwriting Faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), from which he successfully graduated in 1982 (under the tutelage of E.V. Gabrilovich, L.V. Golubkina, S.L. Lungin, and I.V. Vaisfeld)....
