In 1978, he received a higher technical education with a degree in mechanical engineer for oil and gas fields at the Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute.

[1] In 1993, Medveddev was elected to the State Duma of the first convocation from the Nizhnevartovsk single-mandate electoral district No.

[8][9] I n the State Duma of the third convocation, he was deputy chairman of the Committee on Energy, Transport and Communications, a member of the commission for the consideration of legal issues of subsoil use on the terms of production sharing, and was a member of the deputy group “Regions of Russia”.

[10] After he left the State Duma in 2003, he was a member of the Board of Directors of JSC Russian Innovative Fuel and Energy Company.

During his tenure as a deputy of the State Duma of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd convocations, he co-authored 17 legislative initiatives and amendments to draft federal laws.