After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers, he taught theoretical mechanics in the Department of Theoretical Mechanics and Hydraulics at the Moscow Machine Tool Institute from 1953 to 1976.
He was a candidate of technical sciences and also Deputy Dean of the evening faculty of the Institute.
As a young man, he played for Moscow teams "Factory" named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky («Завод имени Ф. Э. Дзержинского») and "Sniper" («Снайпер»).
he debuted in the USSR league in a match against Dynamo Leningrad, as a substitute for Ilya Gvozdkov.
With the White-Blues, he became a two-time national champion and a three-time silver medalist.