From 1993 to 1995, he worked as a chief engineer, and then as a deputy director of the Coordination Council of heads of enterprises and organizations in Donetsk.

From 2002 to 2003, Azarov was an adviser to the then Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych ("on a voluntary basis") From 2007 to 2012, he served as Director-Representative of the International Investment Promotion Fund - Sustainable Ukraine gemeinnützige Forschung GmbH in Vienna.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, Azarov was nominated as a candidate for the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions in the single-mandate majority constituency No.

[2] Since April 2014, Oleksiy and his father, with the help of European lawyers, have been trying to challenge the application of sanctions against them in order to unfreeze blocked EU accounts and lift visa restrictions.

[3] In early September 2014, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior froze the assets of LPG Trading GmbH, which traded in liquefied natural gas, owned jointly Kurchenko and Azarov, on suspicion of money laundering based on a decision of the EU Council on sanctions against the Yanukovych clan.

He owns a house with a plot in the elite district of Vienna Pötzleinsdorf, adjacent to the palace park, where his family lives and where Mykola moved immediately after his resignation from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine in late January 2014.

His wife, Lilya Eduardivna Azarova, (née Fathulina, born in 1976), is an Austrian entrepreneur and publisher (presented as a “housewife” in O. Azarov's declaration of 30.07.2012).