Born September 13, 1958, in the town of Kondrovo, Kaluga Region.
1980: Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of History and Archives.
PhD (History).
1980, 1982-1984: Worked as a senior archive manager in the state archives of the Kalinin and Kaluga Regions.
1984: Appointed head of the archive department of the Kaluga regional executive committee.
1988: Appointed senior lecturer of the Tsiolkovsky State Teachers Training Institute in Kaluga.
1989: Appointed assistant, then senior assistant of the administrative department of the USSR Communist Party's Central Committee.
1991: Appointed consultant, then department head, administration head and board member of the Russian State Archives Service.
1997: Appointed consultant, then department head and councilor of the Russian President's Executive Office.
2001: Appointed state secretary and first deputy head of the Russian Federal Archives Service.
2004: appointed deputy head of the Federal Archives Agency.
2009: appointed head of the Federal Archives Agency by Government Executive Order No.1943-r dated December 14, 2009.