His artistic talent, which emerged early in his teenage years, helped him to enter an art school in Irkutsk in East Siberia, not far from Lake Baikal.

• 在少年时代就显示出来的艺术天赋使他顺利地进入中等艺术学校，来到离贝加尔湖不远的东西伯利亚市伊尔库茨克。