Born in 1948 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Svetozarov studied in a public school in Leningrad and served in the Soviet Army (1966-69). In 1974 he graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Film (LGITMiK) as a theater production designer and was hired by Lenfilm Studios. As an art director he has worked on over forty films with such top directors as Dinara Asanova, Ilya Averbakh, Aleksei German, Sergei Rogozhkin, Vladimir Bortko. He is a member of the Filmmakers Union of Russia, and has received the top Russian national film and TV awards.

FILMOGRAPHY (as production designer)
2006	Master i Margarita (The Master and Margarita) TV miniseries
2005	Italianets (The Italian)
2005	Turetskyi Gambit (Turkish Gambit)
2003	Idiot (The Idiot) TV miniseries
2003	Dnevnik Kamikadze (Diary of a Kamikaze)
2002	Kukushka (The Cuckoo)
2000	Banditskyi Peterburg (Bandits’ Petersburg) TV miniseries
1999	Vostok ­ Zapad (Est ­ Ouest)
1998	Khrustalyov, Mashinu! (Khrustalyov, My Car!)
1988	Sobachye Serdtse (Heart of a Dog)
1983	Blondinka za Uglom (Blonde Around the Corner)
1983	Patsany (Teenagers, aka Tough Kids)
1975	Chuzhiye Pis’ma (Other People’s Letters)