Born on July 1, 1957 in Nzhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region.

1979: graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

2000: graduated from Russian Academy of the Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in History, Teaching in a Foreign Language, and Law. Candidate of Science (History).

1978-1987: lab assistant, senior lab assistant, junior researcher at the Ethnography Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

1987-1988: Counsellor at USSR Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

1989-1990: researcher at the USSR Academy of Sciences Ethnography Institute.

1990-1992: departmental consultant on inter-ethnic relations, Secretariat of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

1992-1992: departmental expert on Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, the Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation.

1992-1992: Vice President of the Russian Union of Investors.

1992-1993: Deputy Head of the Board of the Joint Stock Commercial Innovation Bank of Scientific-Technical Progress (MENATEP).

1993-1994: Chief of the Main Directorate for Liaison with Government Bodies, the Public and the Media, Ministry of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation.

1994-1994: Chief of Department for Liaison with the Deputies of the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly at the Executive Office of the President of the Russian Federation.

1994-1996: Chief of Directorate for Liaison with Political Parties, Non-Governmental Associations, Parliamentary Parties and Deputies of the Houses of the Federal Assembly at the Executive Office of the President of the Russian Federation.

1996-1996: Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate - Chief of Directorate for Liaison with Political Parties, Non-Governmental Associations, Parliamentary Parties and Deputies of the Houses of the Federal Assembly, Main Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation on Domestic and Foreign Policy.

1996-1997: Chief of Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation on Liaison with Political Parties, Non-Governmental Associations, Parliamentary Parties and Deputies of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

1997-2000: Chief of Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation on Domestic Policy.

2000-2012: Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Russian Federation at the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Appointed Deputy Chief of the Government Staff on December 7, 2012.