Национальная музыкальная академия Украины имени П. И. Чайковского
In 1951 he entered the Kiev Conservatory (now the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine), where he studied under B.S. Fishman. After a year of study, he was transferred to the Moscow Conservatory in the studio of David Oistrakh (graduated with honors in 1956, graduate school in 1959 under his tutelage).