[4] He was the professor of the Higher School of Business of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov.

[3][5][6] In 1970 to 1971, he worked in the Kazakh SSR as a fitter of the assembly and construction department of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building.

[3][5][6] He worked as an assistant driller in a geological exploration expedition in the Stavropol Krai, in the village of Arzgir.

Plekhanov, he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of economic sciences, and, at his own request, was assigned to work in Krasnoyarsk.

[3][6] Arriving from Moscow in 1982, a young candidate of sciences, Valery Mikhailovich, became the dean of the Faculty of Economics of KrasSU.

Then, having become a deputy of the State Duma, he did not prevaricate, he was not afraid to be in the minority, if his living conscience dictated so.

[11] From 1986 to 1987, he did an internship in the United States at the University of Oklahoma, where he studied the peculiarities of the organization of labor in the US.

Valery Zubov is an absolute disinterested man, he was always guided by the interests of the country, the region, he was not a member of any clans, corporate associations, he was a true patriot of the Krasnoyarsk Krai.

[3][6] From 2001 to 2004, he was a member of the working (tripartite) group for improving interbudgetary relations in the Russian Federation.

He was a member of three deputy groups in the State Duma for relations with the parliaments of Japan, Canada and Kazakhstan[3] In April 2002, he was elected Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets.

[3][6] In June 2002, from the State Duma, he became a member of the conciliation commission involved in overcoming disagreements on the new version of the law "On the Central Bank of Russia.

[3] From 2003 to 2005, he served as First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets.

[1][3] In 2007, he headed the electoral list of the A Just Russia party in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Krai.

And he had to take this post in the most difficult years in the recent history of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, when there were many months of delays in wages and an acute shortage of everything - money, coal, people's trust.

He had everything for this: an excellent education (he was a real scientist), and political will, and wisdom, and the ability to talk with people.

Nevertheless, he did not get lost - all these years he was in the public eye, he was a real deputy - with his own opinion, with a very deep state thinking, although his views on many issues sharply diverged from the official economic policy.

In 2011, he again headed the party list of A Just Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Krai to participate in the Legislative Assembly.

Valery Mikhailovich was the second governor of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, he headed the region from 1993 to 1998 - in the most difficult and turbulent period of economic and political reforms, when being in power meant taking on an enormous responsibility, not being afraid of solving the most difficult tasks and justifying trust with everyday honest work and people's hopes.

Krasnoyarsk residents will keep the brightest, most grateful memory of Valery Mikhailovich Zubov - a bright politician, a high-class professional, a worthy person.

In 2014, Zubov took fourth place among the richest deputies of the State Duma from the Krasnoyarsk Krai.

[18] Zubov was one of eight members of parliament who voted against the so-called law of Dima Yakovlev, which prohibits the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign citizens.