He is a public figure, an author of a number of study guides in the field of history, theory and practice of physical education and sports training.

In 1975 he moved with his parents to the city of Smolensk where in 1983 he began to engage in sambo and judo wrestling in the Voluntary Sports Society (VSS) Urozhay with the coach Ivan Stefanovich Andrusov.

On September 1, 1985, he entered the special class of the school of Olympic reserve “Sambo-70” where he trained under the guidance of the coach Oleg Vitalievich Komarov.

In 1988 he became the silver medalist of the All-Union Youth Games and fulfilled the requirementsfor “Master of Sports of the USSR”.

In the same year he finished school and entered the Military Engineering Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky, the speciality of automatic control systems for aircraft.

Kurinnoy is a laureate of the Moscow Mayor's Prize as the best trainer of the year and the author of innovative study guides (2008, 2013), a laureateof the All-Russian competition for young scientists in the field of high achievement sports (2006).

In 2002 he defended his thesis on the topic: “The use of modern information technologies for increasing the effectiveness of the wrestler’s training process” and received a PhD in pedagogy.

From 2008 to 2013 he was a professor, the head of the Department of Physical Education at the Russian National Research Medical University named after N. I. Pirogov.

He was awarded the Sergey Orekhov Medal of Moscow Philharmonic for his contribution to the popularization of guitar art.