Date of birth: 05/06/1959.

Born Place of birth: Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

Education: Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of "Metallurgy and heat treatment of metals", specialty - engineer-metallurgist, Ph.D., assistant professor.

Dissertation: Preparation tungstenfree solid TiC-TiNi alloys by explosive compaction.

Work Experience: After graduating from TPI in 1981 - post-graduate student, assistant, associate professor of TPU.