His father was Aleksandr Arbuzov, a chemist and founder of the chemistry of organophosphorus compounds.
[6] At the beginning of scientific activity he studied (under the guidance of AE Arbuzov) the method of tapping coniferous trees, the composition of the gum and the products of its processing - turpentine and rosin.
The work was of great practical importance, and allowed a new approach to the issue of the technical use of turpentine for which he was awarded the A. Butlerov Prize from the Russian Physico-Chemical Society in 1928.
A year later, together with AE Arbuzov, he discovered the reaction of formation of free radicals of the triarylmethyl series which is formed from aryl bromomethane.
He conducted research in a series of derivatives of pyrolytic phosphorus, resulted in the preparation of the drug pyrophos and octamethyl pesticide.