Art director of the course, People’s Artist of the USSR
After graduating from the Moscow Ballet School (1968), he was admitted to the Bolshoi Ballet troupe performing almost all leading ballet parts, including the Nutcracker Prince (The Nutcracker), Prince Desiret (Sleeping Beauty), Prince Siegfried (Swan lake, all by P. Tchaikovsky), Basil (Don Quixote by L. Minkus), Albert (Giselle by A. Adan). Vyacheslav Gordeev became the first performer of the Romeo party in the S. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet.
In 1984 he headed the Ensemble of Classical Ballet of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic Society, later transformed into the Russian Ballet Theater, which he still leads. In 1987 he graduated from the Ballet faculty of GITIS.
From 1995 to 1997 — art director of the Bolshoi Ballet. From 2003 to 2006 — art director of the ballet of the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater.
He repeatedly acted as the chairman of the jury of international competitions of ballet dancers — in Japan (Osaka) and Korea. Since 1999 — the official representative of the R. Nureyev Fund in Russia and CIS countries.