Born on June 14, 1953, in Moscow.

1979: graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Management Institute with a degree in Engineering and Economics.

PhD in Economics.

1973-1973: unskilled worker at the production facility of the All-Union Voluntary Firefighters Society’s Moscow City Council.  

1973-1980: senior laboratory assistant, engineer, senior engineer, group supervisor at the Research and Design Institute Giprotsvetmetobrabotka, Moscow.

1980-1984: head of the Software Department at the Central Special Technical Bureau of the Local Industry Ministry of the RSFSR, Moscow.

1984-1988: head of a Department at the Main Information Computing Centre of USSR Gosstandart, Moscow.  

1988-1988: head of a Department at the Main Research Centre for Public Classifiers of USSR Gosstandart, Moscow.

1988-1989: senior researcher at the All-Union Research and Production Association Soyuzgazavtomatika, Moscow.

1990-1991: department head and IT director at JV UNITEKH, Moscow.

1991-2002: director of ELCO Technology, Moscow.

2002-2003: director of the consulting and innovation firm Interstandard.

2003-2004: State Secretary and First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Standardisation and Metrology.

April 8, 2004: Head of the Federal Service for Technical Regulation and Metrology.