 He has written more than 1000 songs, often based on poems by Leonid Derbenyov, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Mikhail Tanich and Ilya Reznik.In 1998, Dobrynin got a star on the Star Square in Moscow.In the 1980s Dobrynin started to record his own songs, and in 1990 he founded "Doctor Shlyager" band.