He graduated from the Kursk Music College in 1957, then studied in the L'vov Music School until 1961, when he dropped out for a teaching career and did not complete his formal music education until 1976, when he graduated from the Novosibirsk Music School.
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In 1960s-80s he also played in the Academia orchestra in Akademgorodok, a science campus-town near the city of Novosibirsk, USSR.
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