Alexander graduated from the Sverdlovsk music school in 2002 specializing in drums of the pop-jazz department, the class of Bobrushkin. At the same time he founded his Drum School.
In 2007 he graduated from the Moscow State Classical Academy in the class of Professor Kovalevskiy. He has been teaching since 2001. Since that time he has taught several hundreds of students, who are now working successfully in different Russian bands.