He was born on April 14, 1952 in Vyborg, Leningrad region.

From 1971 to1992 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR.

In 1976 he graduated from the Kharkov Higher Command Engineering School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union N.I. Krylov.

In 1995 he was assistant of a deputy of the State Duma, coordinator of the Ivanovo regional branch of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR).

In 1997 he was elected as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Ivanovo region.

In 2001 he graduated from the Ivanovo branch of the North-West Academy of Public Administration.

In 2003 he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation and was a member of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism. He is a member of the LDPR faction.

In 2007 he was elected as the deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation in the federal list of candidates nominated by the political party “The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia”. He is a member of the LDPR faction. He was a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy.

March 2, 2008 he was elected as a deputy of the Ivanovo Regional Duma of the fifth convocation of the Ivanovo regional department of political party the LDPR. He was a Deputy Chairman of the Ivanovo Regional Duma, carried out activity on a permanent professional basis.

In 2011 he was elected as deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation in the federal list of candidates nominated by the political party “The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia”. He was a Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Nationalities.

March 9, 2016 he was appointed as member of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation by the resolution of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

He is awarded with the medal of the Order of Merit for the Motherland of the III degree, the Diploma of Honour of the Council of the Federation, the Diploma of Honour of the Ivanovo Regional Duma, the Diploma of Honour of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

He is married and has one son, two daughters and three grandchildren.