As an artillery soldier and platoon commander in WWII, he was in April 1945 seriously wounded on the 4th Ukrainian Front.
[1] After demobilization in 1945, he entered the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University, from which he graduated in 1950.
There in 1953 he received his Candidate of Sciences degree (PhD) with thesis Принцип излучения и единственность решения задач дифракции (The principle of radiation and the uniqueness of the solution of diffraction problems).
In 1963 he received his Russian Doctor of Sciences degree (habilitation) with thesis Мето ды исследования распространения колебаний в нерегулярных волноводах (Methods for studying the propagation of oscillations in irregular waveguides).
He and his colleagues created and implemented algorithms for mathematical models of plasma physics and dynamics of continuous media.