Vladimir Nepevny graduated from the University of Odessa in mechanical engineering and mathematics in 1989, and from the St. Petersburg Theatre Academy in 1997. he has been shooting documentary films since 2001. He is known to be the author of many unique films-portraits about outstanding writers, artists, and musicians, like Kira Muratova, Victor Chklovsky and Roman Jacobson, Anna Akhmatova, Arthur Lourie, Victor Sosnora, Gayvoronsky, and Koulakov.