Born:
April 7, 1969
Place: in Leningrad, USSR
St. Petersburg, Russia
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Started figure skating in 1979, age 10. Took gymnastics lessons as a child, but didn't like it and switched to skating. Coaches
put him in the pairs skating program immediately.
First coach: E. Beylina
Mother was a competitive gymnast. Parents are both engineers, and has one younger sister.
Attended Academy of Physical Culture, St Petersburg, Russia.
Broke his collarbone in October, 1996, and had surgery to insert a pin there.
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