Oleg started gymnastics at age six and competed through young adulthood. Some of his many gymnastics awards include Master Sportsman of the USSR (the highest rank achieved in Soviet Sports); third all around at the Championship of Uzbekistan; second all around, first on pommel horse, and third on high bars and rings at the Junior USSR Championship; and first place team member at the USSR-Austria-Bulgaria-Germany-Poland-Romania international team competition.

     For four years, Oleg performed original and standard tricks in the Moscow Circus as a Cossack horse rider and cradle and trapeze artist. (He invented two skills still used in the circus today: the "Vertushka v Sevlo" and the "Galloping Vaulting Healy on Saddle.”)

     Oleg has received the Northern California Boy's Gymnastics Association Coach of the Year six times for his excellence in coaching. His teams have won numerous state and regional championship titles. Gymnasts he has coached have qualified for state and regional all star teams, the Junior Olympic National Championships, the Junior National Team, and been awarded scholarships to prestigious universities. In addition to coaching, Oleg is also an internationally rated men's gymnastics judge.

     Oleg grew up in the Ukraine and was educated at the Special School of Olympic Reserve for Gymnastics, later coaching their junior gymnastics team. He earned a Bachelor of Sports degree from the University of Physical Culture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. After graduating, he managed the Sports Education Department of the Republic of Uzbekistan where he established the curriculum of Gymnastics School and School of Acro Sports, including rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline, and diving. He was responsible for the training of Olympians and the supervision of all coaches.

     Since coming to the U.S. in 1991, Oleg has made great contributions to the development of U.S. athletes. In 1992, Oleg coached at such highly recognized institutions as UC Berkeley, the International Gymnastics Camp, SCATS Gymnastics, Technique Gymnastics, and other successful Junior Olympic and elite boy's training programs.

     In 1996, only seven months after beginning an assistant coaching position at UC Berkeley Men's Gymnastics, the team took second place at the NCAA Championships and won the gold medal in 1997 for the first time in 20 years. While at UC Berkeley, he assisted in the training of Trent Wells and David Kruse, who both made the U.S. Senior National Team and represented the U.S. in international competitions.