After graduation from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, he was distributed (in USSR was a system of distribution of graduated students to companies that they could not leave for 3 years and they could not be fired during this period) to the PZRD where worked as a senior foreman at the conveyor assembly of PGK; later as a technologist (task manager for programmers) at the SKB-VT. Later he was engaged in private business. Editor of the "World of Russian Records" website.