Education
Gorky Polytechnic Institute (1962), specialty: "Ship power plants".
Previous places of work
1961-1964 — First Secretary of the Komsomol district committee (RK VLKSM) of the Sovetsky district of Gorky; 1964 — Head of the Department of Komsomol Organizations of the Gorky Industrial Obkom of the Komsomol, Gorky; 1964-1966 — Secretary, Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation, Head of the Department of Propaganda and Mass Cultural Work of the Gorky Komsomol obkom, Gorky; 1966-1968 — Second Secretary of the Gorky Komsomol obkom; 1968-1974 — First Secretary of the Gorky Komsomol obkom; 1974-1977 — First Secretary of the Nizhegorodsky district committee of the CPSU, Gorky; 1977-1979 — Secretary of the Gorky city committee of the CPSU, Gorky; 1979-1981 — postgraduate student at the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee, Moscow; 1981-1987 — Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Gorky Regional Council of People's Deputies, Gorky; 1987-1988 — Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate (UVD) of the Gorky Regional Executive Committee, Gorky; 1988-1990 — Second Secretary of the Gorky CPSU obkom, Gorky; 1990-1991 — served in the internal affairs bodies of the USSR, Head of the Political Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR; 1991-1993 — General Director of the information and publishing agency "Interdetektiv", Moscow; 1993-1996 — Director of the Department of Economic Security and Information Protection, Director of the Department of Branches, Deputy Chairman of the Board – Director of the Department of Branches of the joint-stock interindustry Russian National Bank, Moscow; 1996-1998 — Head of the Security Service of the limited partnership "Russky Investitsionny Dom" (Russian Investment House), Moscow; since 1998 — Administrator of GAO VVC, Moscow.
Foreign language
German.
Academic degrees, honorary titles, state awards
Three Orders of the "Red Banner of Labour" and four medals.
Hobbies
Fishing.