Ivan was born in Ulyanovsk in 1989. In 2006 he entered the Ulyanovsk College of Music (class of teacher Alexei Pokryshkin), and, since 2009, he studied at the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg College of Music (class of teacher Alexander Shilo). In 2011 he entered the class of the same professor at the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatoire.
Ivan took part in a master class by Rinat Ibragimov.
He performed in the double bass ensemble “Quatro Bass +”.