My professional career began when at the age of 14 I signed my first contract with the youth team of Konti-Pulkovo (St. Petersburg), and a year later I received an invitation to the legendary team of BC Spartak (St. Petersburg, who signed a professional contract with the men's basketball club. During my twenty-year professional career, I played in such clubs as Units (Kazan), Zenit (St. Petersburg
), Spartak (St. Petersburg), Triumph (Moscow region), Enisey (Krasnoyarsk) and Avtodor (Saratov), and was also a member of the youth and adult national teams of Russia. Throughout my career, I have constantly participated in many master classes for children and teenagers, taught them the basics of basketball and shared secrets, which now helps me find a common language with any child and help them to find and open the best parts of themselves. I have been playing under the best European coaches such as David Blatt, Dimitris Priftis, Andrea Trinkieri, Vasiliy Karasev, Evgeny Pashutin, Stanislav Eremin, Emil Rajkovic who has invaluable knowledge and experience that I am ready to pass on to those who want to learn how to play basketball.
