[1][2] In 1968 he entered and in 1973 he graduated from the Ural State University, Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty.

[6] He is a Novy Mir magazine award winner (2016).

He published in Voprosy Istorii, Russian History, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Voprosy Ekonomiki, Social Evolution & History,[8] Economics & Sociology.

[9][10] He is co-author (with Peter Turchin) of “Secular Cycles” (Princeton University Press, 2009), reviewed by William R. Thompson,[11] Laura Panza,[12] and Brian J. L.

[13] He is a regular contributor to the magazine Novy Mir.