Graduated from the Moscow Technical Highschool MVTU ('Moskovskoye Vyssheye Tekhnicheskoye
Uchilishche (Moscow Higher Technological School)')
named after Nikolai E. Bauman, 1979, and started then his doctoral work; worked
there for several years; from 1983-1988, he was a graduate student, and junior
scientific researcher at MVTU and scientific researcher at NPO ('Nauchno Proizvodstvennoye Obedineniye
Energiya (Scientific Production Association Energiya, Energiya = Energy)')
Energiya; from 1988-1991, he was the editor of the periodical "Ekonomika
& Tekhnika"; from 1990, he was the president of the interregional public
association, Moscow Space Club; since 1996, he has been the general director of
ZAO "Center for Technology Transfer" with Rosaviakosmos.
OKP ('Obshchekosmicheskaya Podgotovka = General Space Training'): 16.06.2003 - 27.06.2005.