He earned a graduate degree in Theoretical Physics – the equivalent of a Ph.D. in the United States – at Kuban State University (Kubanski Gosudarstvennyi Universitet).
In 1996, he enrolled in the Kuban State University of Physical Education and moved to Krasnodar, where he began wrestling under the direction of the honored coach of Russia, Igor Ivanov.
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