[1] As a child, he played football on Leskovitsa, took part in the unofficial championships of Chernihiv among street teams.
[3] In 1965, Desna reached the 1/8 finals of the Soviet Cup, defeating 6 opponents, including the A-class teams - Shinnik and Baku's Neftyanik.
In 1971 he graduated from the Chernigov branch of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and got a job at the Chernihiv Radio Instrument Plant.
At this enterprise he worked as a designer, senior engineer and foreman of the precision mechanics workshop, held the positions of department head, head of the trade union committee and deputy chief engineer.
In the last years of his life he worked as an engineer in the research and production complex "Vector" (Exclusion Zone of the Chernobyl NPP).