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Professor. He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School (teachers: B. V. Shavrov, I. D. Belsky) and was a soloist with the ballet company of the Leningrad State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after S. M. Kirov from 1949 to 1971. Starting in 1951, he taught at the choreographic school, and from 1977 to 1987, he also led an advanced class at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre. He was a professor in the classical dance department. Among his students were Mikhail Baryshnikov, Farukh Ruzimatov, Bulat Ayukhanov, Anuarbek Jalilov, Vadim Budarin, Vadim Gulyaev, Makhar Vaziev, and Feton Miocchi.