[5] Then, from 1983 to 1984, he worked as an engineer of the main postal department of the Ministry of Communications of the BSSR, from 1984 to 1988 he was the head of the international section of the Minsk Post Office.
He became a chief specialist of the State Committee for External Economic Relations of Belarus from 1991 to 1993.
[8] He then became the Head of the Regional Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of Belarus in 1996.
[9] On 14 July 1997, Chakunkov was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of the Belarus.
[14] He has two sons,[15] including, Aleksey, who is the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic.