In 1975, he started working as a history teacher at a Moscow school and only retired in 2004 despite being in love with teaching.

[1] His early fiction works were occasionally published in the USSR through the late 1970s and 1980s but he mostly owed his initial popularity to the well-distributed non-fiction book The Sovereign of the Desert about Roman Ungern von Sternberg, issued in 1993.

[2] Yuzefovich became the main winner of the 2009 Big Book, the Russian national literary award, for his novel Cranes and Pygmies on November 26.

Yuzefovich's books have been translated and issued in English,[5] French, German, Italian, Mongolian, Polish, and Spanish languages.

[6] Yuzefovich's daughter Galina is a literary critic, by peers she is considered the most influential in her field.