In 1931, he graduated from the school, specializing as an operator in the coke chemical industry, and in the same year, Filatov began working at the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine.

Alongside his work at the combine, he studied in the evening department of the Magnitogorsk State Technical University, receiving a diploma in engineering metallurgy in 1944.

[3] After graduating from the mining and metallurgical institute, Filatov started working in the wire-strip shop of MMK, where he took the position of head of the site of the technical control department.

In 1950, Andrey Dmitrievich Filatov became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (later CPSU), and was appointed as the deputy head of the shop.

[11][12] In 1969, along with the head of the fifth sheet rolling shop Leonid Radyukevich and the deputy chief power engineer of the combine Khussid, he was awarded the State Prize of the Soviet Union in the technology field.

In May 1973, the first stage of the sixth sheet rolling shop was commissioned, and it became fully operational after Andrey Filatov's death, in the autumn of the same year.

During Filatov's leadership, nine kindergartens and nurseries, a new hospital building for the MMK medical unit; children's camps, a rest house, a sanatorium building in Yalta, children's health facilities; a dairy plant, a potato storage, a vegetable processing shop, a fruit storage facility were constructed.

[1] Filatov issued a verbal order regarding housing distribution, now giving priority to families where both spouses worked at the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine.

Notably, it was thanks to Filatov that this educational institution received its current building at the intersection of Karl Marx Avenue and Steelevare Street[19] In 2011, the second part of the duology by Valery Nikolaevich Kucher, "Magnitka – Forever.

Chapter 6, part 1 "Audacity and Boldness of the Innovator" tells about the work of Andrey Dmitrievich Filatov as the director of MMK from 1968 to 1973.