Ihor Dolhov graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1980, philologist, lecturer, PhD in linguistics 1980–1992 — he was assistant, the Department of the Russian Language and the Methodology of its Tuition as a Foreign Language Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
December 2000 to October 2001 — Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Foreign Policy the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.
From April 2002[1] to July 2004 — Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Republic of Turkey.
From September 2004 to January 2006[2] — Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
[citation needed] From February 2009 to June 2010 — Ambassador at Large of the Department for Information Policy Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.