Place of Birth: Mogocha, Trans-Baikal Territory

Education: The Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, 1974, Department of geology and minerals prospecting, mining engineer qualification in the specialty "Geological survey, searching and prospecting of mineral deposits"

Dissertations: "Endogenous zonality of hydrothermal formations of the Central ore field (Kuznetsk Alatau)",
"Anomalous structures of geochemical fields of hydrothermal gold deposits: mechanism of formation, methods geometrisation standard models, mineralization forecast", 2007