Pavel Medvedev was born in 1963 in Orenburg, Russia. In 1990 he graduated from the Leningrad State Culture Institute named after Krupskaya (Department "Cinema/Photo"). In 1992 he graduated from the Higher School for TV directors (workshop of Sarukhanov). 1993 2000 worked as a TV director in St. Petersburg. Since 2000 - film director at the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio.