He personally oversaw more than 100 nuclear experiments during his directorship and spent over nine years at the Semipalatinsk and Novaya Zemlya test sites.
[3] In 1992, Mikhaylov was selected to head the newly formed Ministry of Atomic Energy, or MinAtom (now Rosatom).
Under his tenure Russia maintained its nuclear infrastructure and saw an increase in international cooperation on atomic energy growth.
[4] He was also the bearer of many other titles: Academician of RAS (1997)[5] and of RARAN,[6] Doctor of Engineering (1976), professor (1984) and Founder of the School of Explosive Fission Physics and Penetration Radiation Single Pulse Diagnostics.
After graduating from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1958, he entered the theoretical department of KB-11 (now RFNC – VNIIEF), where he achieved success in creating new models of nuclear and thermonuclear charges.