He studied as an engineer-economist during this period of his life and by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, he was head of administration of Krasnoyarsk's Sverdlovsk District [ru].

He stepped down in 2011, having been elected to a deputy of the State Duma, where he would serve continuously until his death ten years later.

His political career was rewarded with several honours and awards, prior to his death as an incumbent member of the duma in 2021.

[1][2] He began a career as an assembly fitter, and then design engineer, at the Krasnoyarsk Combine Plant [ru] in 1966.

He worked in these roles at the plant until 1973, with a two year gap from 1968 to 1970 when he was conscripted into the Soviet Armed Forces.

In 1973 he became secretary of the Oktyabrsky District [ru] Committee of the All-Union Lenin Communist Youth Union, and between 1978 and 1979 he was head of shop at the Krasnoyarsk Combine Plant.

He graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Nonferrous Metals and Gold that year, being awarded the degree of candidate of economic sciences for his thesis topic "State regulation of the transition to a market economy.

[10] A farewell ceremony was held at Krasnoyarsk's Great Concert Hall on 17 August, after which he was laid to rest alongside his wife, who had died in December 2008, in the alley of glory in Krasnoyarsk's Badalyk Cemetery [ru].