[1] He had served as the deputy head of the Luhansk Regional Civil-Military Administration.
In 1995 he graduated from the Luhansk State Pedagogical Institute named after Shevchenko, with being qualified as a teacher of Russian language and literature.
Between March 1996 and April 2015, served in the military within the Security Service of Ukraine.
In 1997, he graduated from the Academy of Security Service of Ukraine with a degree in law.
In April 2015, he became the Deputy Head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration for Security and Public Order, which eventually transformed the title the Deputy Head of the Luhansk Regional Military-Civil Administration.