Vsevolod Aravin was born and grew up in a family of musicians in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. After appearing in a commercial at the age of 4, he made up his mind to become a film director. Following the family tradition, he studied music, but was determinedly getting ready for a career in directing. | The crisis of the 1990s didn’t let Vsevolod fulfil his dream of making fiction films, so he worked in documentary and TV for a quite long period, up to 2007. Nowadays he makes feature films and TV-series in Moscow. Working with leading Russian actors, he films in various genres, but mostly action and detective. He often acts as well. |
He started making his first films with an 8-mm camera in Tien Shan Mountains at the age of 12-14. When he was 18 he started filming with a 16-mm camera. Later, in 1989, having dropped out of Novosibirsk Conservatory, he finally started studying directing at the Theatre Arts Academy (called Leningrad State Institute of Music and Cinematography at that time). | Vsevolod has tried lots of sports (mountaineering, rock climbing, scuba diving, freediving, parachute jumping, yoga, powerlifting) and martial arts (boxing, judo, kudo, ju-jitsu). Though for the past 10 years aikido has been the main sport for him (black belt, second dan). |