In 1988 he graduated from the Odessa National Maritime Academy, and started working at the Soviet Danube Shipping Company in 1992.

[citation needed] From 1997 to 2000 he worked as the director of a Tiraspol based commercial organization and from 2000 to 2006 he was the head accountant for Akvarel LLC.

[citation needed] On December 23, 2015 Prokudin was named the Prime Minister for outgoing president Yevgeny Shevchuk.

When the new president Vadim Krasnoselsky came to power Prokudin was removed from office for Aleksandr Martynov.

On January 17, 2017, he became an adviser to Krasnoselsky, and on June 6, 2017, he was elected president of the Transnistria national football team.