Graduated from the Higher Theater School named after M.S. Shchepkin with a degree in Drama Theater and Cinema Acting in 1974 and from the Directing Department of the A.S. Lunar GITIS. Graduated from the M.S. Schepkin Higher Theatre School as a drama and cinema actor in 1974 and from the directing department of the A.V. Lunacharsky GITIS (workshop of Professor A.A. Goncharov) in 1982.
In 1975-1975 - actor, from 1982 - director, from 1983 - chief director, from 1990 - artistic director of the P.A. Oyunsky Sakha Theater.
Founder and head (2000-2006) of the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts, master of the first directing course.
Founder of the Olonkho Theater (2000).
Artistic director of the international sports games "Children of Asia", interregional ethno-cultural festival "Yerdyn Games" in Irkutsk region, international theater festival "Zhelanny Bereg", international festival "Meeting of UNESCO masterpieces on the land of Olonkho".
Since 2004 he has been involved in the development of the republic's film industry; he directed the feature film "The Secret of Dschinghis Khan" (2009).
1990-2014 - Minister of Culture and Spiritual Development of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Since 2014 - State Advisor on Culture to the Head of the Sakha Republic.
President of the public union "Sakha Omuk". Full member (academician) of the Academy of Spirituality of the Republic of Sakha. Member of the Supreme Council of the international "Eurasian Movement".
On the stage of the Sakha Theater he staged more than fifty performances, each of which became an event in the cultural life of Yakutia. He has worked in many theaters in Russia, near and far abroad, in the last decade - in the theaters of Yakutia, in Irkutsk, Altai Republic, PRC, Republic of Turkey. The most famous productions were created in collaboration with the St. Petersburg artist Gennady Sotnikov. His productions in different years have been awarded diplomas of the festivals "Golden Mask", "Baltic House", "Good News".
Awards
Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1986)
Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art (1999).
Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation (2002)
People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2007)
Honored Art Worker of the Altai Republic (2010)
Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (2011)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (2017)
The XIII International Alexandrinsky Festival presented Andrei Borisov's plays "Six Characters in Search of the Author" (September 27, 2022. Main Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre) and "King Lear" (September 28, 2022. Main Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre), The P. A. Oyunsky Sakha Academic Theater.
