In 1975 he entered the graduate school of Kuibyshev Planning Institute, and in 1978 he graduated from it, moving to scientific work in this Institute, where he passed all the steps from Junior researcher to head of the research laboratory, the basic unit of the state planning Committee of the RSFSR in the Volga region economic region.

The main scientific topics of Titov's works and publications were the problems of economic efficiency of fixed assets, capital investments and new equipment.

[3] From 1988 to 1990 he worked as deputy director for economics of the Kuibyshev branch Of the research and production center "Informatics" - one of the first enterprises in the USSR, which tried to put applied science on a self-supporting market basis.

In March 1990 he was elected to the Kuibyshev City Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies, and then became its Chairman (de facto Mayor).

[4] In 1996, he was re-elected Governor of the Samara Oblast, ahead of his main competitor, communist Valentin Romanov.

In 2014, Governor Nikolay Merkushkin recalled Titov, and appointed Mayor of Samara Dmitry Azarov as new Senator.

[13] Out of the seven members of the coordinating council, four had voted in favor of supporting Putin (Chubais, Gaidar, Kiriyenko, Nekrutenko).

[15] Titov's campaign touted endorsements from State Duma deputies Sergei Yushenkov, Nikolay Brusnikin, and Hasan Mirzoev.

[16] The campaign also touted celebrity endorsements from Rimma Kazakova, Nikolay Bederin, and Vyacheslav Dobrynin.