Ended in 1973. Gorky institute of engineers of the water transport (nowadays - the Nizhny Novgorod academy of the water transport) in "Ship machines and mechanisms", qualification - the mechanical engineer.
Upon completion of study in university, and then after service in the Soviet Army (1973 - 1974) worked in Gorky CDB Minrechflot RSFSR as the design engineer and the lead engineer, since 1980 - in oil and gas construction, in SMU No. 2 of Ryazantruboprovodstroy trust of Glavtruboprovodstoya of Minneftegazstroy of the USSR the foreman, the supervising foreman, the chief engineer and the chief of this SMU. In 1990 it is appointed the chief engineer of Soyuzvolgogaz trust of the state gas concern "Gazprom" (since 1994 - child open joint stock company "Volgogaz" of Gazprom open joint stock company). Since 2002 - the CEO of JSC Volgogaz.
Torzhok - Minsk - Ivatsevichi, the Yaroslavl-Kirishi oil pipeline, etc. participated in a construction of Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod, Yamburg-Yelets gas pipelines.
The author of two inventions promoting performance improvement of extraction of sand-gravel mixes from a bottom of the rivers and reservoirs and also laying of tranches on a bottom of the rivers and reservoirs. It is awarded ranks "Honorary Worker of the Gas Industry" (2001), the Certificate of honor of RJSC Gazprom (1997).
The wife Lyudmila Aleksandrovna is a lead engineer of technological department of the Repair and recovery management specializing in construction of gas pipelines; the daughter Elena is a bank employee.