Amongst seniors, he climbed his first World Cup podium in 2006 with a second place in the Gerevich-Kovács-Kárpáti Cup in Budapest. He won the team gold medal in the 2006 European Championships. He went on to earn the team bronze medal at the 2006 World Fencing Championships in Turin with Aleksey Frosin, Stanislav Pozdnyakov and Aleksey Yakimenko, after Russia defeated Hungary in the match for the third place.