Birth date: February 6, 1954.

Birth place: Chita city.

Education: Tomsk Institute of Automated Control Systems and Radioelectroni (TIASUR), 1976;

Academy of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), 1989.

Short biography:
1976 – 1979 – Junior research associate, senior engineer of TIASUR.
1979 – 1982 – Second secretary, first secretary of the Strezhevoy City Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.
1982 – 1990 – Second secretary, first secretary of the Tomsk Regional Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.
1990 – 1991 – Inspector, head of the department of the Tomsk Regional CPSU Committee.
1991 – 1992 – Vice-chairman of the Strezhevoy Executive Committee of the City Soviet of People's Deputies.
1993 – 1996 – Assistant head of the administration, vice-chairman of the Tomsk Committee on Property Management.
1996 – 1998 – Chairman of the Board of the Trade Union of Tomsk Oblast Businessmen.
1998 – 2000 – Chairman of the Committee on State Regulation of Trade and Household Services, assistant head of the department of Tomsk Oblast Administration.
From 2000 – Head of the machinery of the State Duma of Tomsk Oblast.