Born October 4, 1928 in the village Novokindelinskoe Ilekskogo district of Novosibirsk region.
. In 1950 graduated from Saratov Economic Institute, specializing in economics of monetary and credit.
. In 1951 left for distribution in Barnaul, where he worked four years in the Altai regional office of the State Bank of the USSR - first as an economist, then chief auditor of the State Bank of the USSR.
. In 1955 - 56 studied at the Finance Academy in Leningrad.
. Since 1956 - senior loan officers, then head of department, deputy head of planning and economic management of the USSR State Bank.
. From 1963 he worked in the CPSU Central Committee.
. In 1973 - 1987 - Managing Russia's office of the Republican State Bank of the USSR.
. In 1987 - 1991 - Senior Consultant, Chairman of the USSR State Bank.
. In 1990, retired.
. He was invited to the USSR State Bank for the post of advisor, then in 1990 was invited by the Director General of the Moscow Bank Union.
. In 1991, elected president of the Association of Russian Banks (ARB).
. Since October 1996 - Member of the Board of banking activities under the RF Government.
. Since 1996 - Member of the National Economic Council.
. In April 1999, reelected as President of BDA.
. Elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.
. Vice-President of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, . Deputy Chairman of the Congress of Russian business, . Deputy Chairman of the Board of Commerce and Industry Chamber of the RF, . member of the Presidium of the Entrepreneurship Council of the Government of Moscow.,
. Member of the Academy of Management and Market, the International Academy of Information Processes and Technology.
. He speaks English with a dictionary.
. His wife, Tamara Stepanovna Education - translator
. Daughter Helen (1958) working in Russia Republican Library. Son of Nikita (1958) graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, is engaged in insurance business.
