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.