He previously served as Governor of Kursk Oblast from 2019 to 2024, Deputy Minister of Transport, and the head of the Federal Road Agency in that ministry.

[5] From 2005 to 2007, he held the position of Head of the Investor Relations Department of the St. Petersburg Government Investment and Strategic Projects Committee.

[7] On the 2019 Unified Voting Day 8 September 2019, he won with a result of 81.07% in the first round of elections of the Governor of the Kursk Oblast.

[6] In 1995 he graduated from the D. F. Ustinov Baltic State Technical University, majoring in “Pulse heat engines”.

In 2012, at the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of pedagogical sciences on the topic "Innovative methodology for training athletes in winter polyathlon" In 2019, he graduated from the program for the development of the personnel management reserve of the Higher School of Public Administration (ВШГУ) of the RANEPA.