He served in a separate engineer-sapper battalion as a driver of a floating armored personnel carrier, where he was wounded in battle.

For a prize-winning place among the commanders of tank companies of the Western Group of Forces, he was awarded the rank of captain ahead of schedule.

In the same year, he entered the Military Academy of Armored Forces named after Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya.

In March 1998 - commander of the 428th separate tank Bobruisk battalion (settlement of Maxim Gorky, Gorodishchensky district, Volgograd region) of the 20th guards motorized rifle division.

For successfully conducted exercises with tanks crossing the Don River along the bottom, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel ahead of schedule.

In March 2000, he was appointed deputy commander of the 242nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment Zaleshchitsky (Kamyshin, Volgograd Region).

[2] In October 2017, by decree of the President of Russia, he was appointed commander of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District within the Republic of Buryatia.