He served as head of the committee on Agrarian Issues.

[1] Laureate of the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union and the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2009).

Kostychev Ryazan State Agrotechnological University in 1971.

Kashin was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.