 After graduating from the Higher Master School at Moscow Conservatory he studied composition with professor Nesterov (pupil of Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin) at Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory.In 1961 Dokumentov moved back to Kostroma, working as a composer, performer at Kostroma Philharmonic Society and as a piano teacher.He is currently a professor of Nekrasov Kostroma State University.