Education
Pedagogical University (1990), teacher of history and social studies; Volga-Vyatka Academy of Public Administration (1998).
Previous places of work
1980-1981, 1983-1987 — 5th-grade electrician, Vyksa Steel Works; 1981-1983 — counselor-instructor at the "Artek" pioneer camp; 1987-1990 — secretary of the VMZ Komsomol committee, 1st secretary of the town Komsomol committee, Vyksa (disambiguation); 1990-1993 — chairman of the subcommittee on international policy of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, Moscow; 1993-1999 — 1st deputy director of a department, chairman of the youth affairs committee, Nizhny Novgorod; 1999-2001 — director of the department of education and science of the Nizhny Novgorod region administration, deputy governor.
Publications
10 scholarly works and books on history and philosophy.
Foreign language
German, Ukrainian.
Hobbies
Track and field, chess, tennis, poetry, songwriting, playing guitar and bayan.