From 1991 to 2014 he worked at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, in the position of master and chief scientific officer.

In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis on «The inelastic processes of quantum electrodynamics at high energies».

He participated in the expert group on the formation of the scientific program of physical facilities like Panda (DESY, Germany), BES III (Beijing, China), CMD2 (Novosibirsk, Russia).

He repeatedly performed at the Academic Council BLTP, made presentations at scientific conferences and seminars in Russia and abroad.

Kuraev was the winner of the publishing house MAIK «Nauka / Interperiodica» for the series of articles «photoproduction processes and decays of mesons.