[1] He was also Principal Researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1967 he entered and in 1972 he graduated from the Moscow State University, Faculty of Economics.

He was one of the organizers of the Higher School of Economics,[6] and became its first vice chancellor.

[7] He taught at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Voprosy Ekonomiki.