He worked at an automobile plant, was engaged in advertising, mentored in a village school in Mogilev region.

As the critic recalls Vyacheslav Ogryzko, the literary critic Vadim Kozhinov at that time claimed in «Literaturnaya gazeta» that there are six poets in Russia: Alexey Prasolov, Nikolai Rubtsov, Vladimir Sokolov, Yuri Kuznetsov, Oleg Chukhontsev and Pyotr Koshel.

1982—1995 – Lead Editor of the Soviet Writer Publishing House, oversaw the translated poetry of Ukraine, Belarus and North Caucasus.

The poems were published in the magazines «Youth», «New world», «Banner», «Friendship of peoples», Literaturnaya gazeta», Literary Russia», etc.

Author of numerous historical essays, translations of Serbian, Belarusian, Dagestan poetry.