Born in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2001.
Repertoire includes: La Sylphide (Youth); Giselle (Classical duet); The Sleeping Beauty (The Blue Bird); Walpurgisnacht (Satyr); La Bayadere (Fakir); Swan Lake (Prince‘s Friends); Raymonda (Grand pas); Fokine‘s Chopiniana (Nocturne, Mazurka, Seventh Waltz); Le Sacre du printemps (Elder, Youth); The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Tatar Dance); Romeo and Juliet (Troubadour); The Legend of Love (Ferkhad‘s Friends); Roland Petit‘s Carmen (Bandit); Balanchine‘s Prodigal Son (Friend of the Prodigal), Jewels(Emeralds, Diamonds), Ballet Imperial; Alexei Ratmansky‘s Cinderella (Seasons‘ Divertissement: Autumn, Winter); The Nutcracker (Pulcinella, Mother Gigone), staged by Mihail Chemiakin with choreography by Kirill Simonov; The Magic Nut (Hungarian Bridegroom, Young Drosselmeyer), staged by Mihail Chemiakin and choreographed by Donvena Pandoursky; Forsythe‘s Approximate Sonata; Donvena Pandoursky‘s Metaphysics (the Man).