He served as Minister of Railways [ru] from 1996 to 1997.
He died in Saint Petersburg on 13 February 2022, at the age of 82.
[1] He was born on 6 February 1940 in Kalinino, Oyatsky District, Leningrad Oblast,[2] into a peasant family.
[3] From 1975 he worked as second then first secretary of Kandalaksha City Committee.
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