Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since 1998, I have been living in Lübeck, northern Germany. I graduated from Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in engineering. I participated in the cleanup efforts following the Chernobyl disaster. I began writing while still in Kharkiv, where several of my first poems were published. He began writing prose after moving to Germany. He has been published in children’s and adult literary publications, including the magazines Siberian Lights, Nevsky Almanac, Northern Aurora, Altai, Nizhny Novgorod, Daryal, Sura, Koster, Kukumber, Chudesy i prykuydnya – detyam, and others. In 2009, several of his short stories were included in the Moscow Anthology of Russian Writers in Europe, and in 2013, in the Israeli collection of short stories Desyatdomikov.