Born January 31, 1950, Russian.
He graduated from the Omsk State Pedagogical Institute. A. M. Gorky. Candidate of historical sciences, docent.
. Worked as head of the Department of Political Sociology of the Omsk Pedagogical University.
. From 1993 - Secretary of the Omsk regional committee of the Communist Party of Russia.
. In 1993, unsuccessfully ran for the State Duma.
. In 1994 was elected to the Omsk City Council, was deputy chairman of the City Council.
. 17 December 1995 was elected to the State Duma of the second convocation.
. Was a trustee of Gennady Zyuganov in the Omsk region in the 1996 presidential elections.
. In August 1999, expelled from the Communist Party lawyer Sergei
Kravets Trubin accused in the destruction of the Socialist Workers Party (TSP), in defiance of the statute of the Communist Party, harassment and persecution of the rank and file communists who disagreed with his point of view.
. In November 1999, sent a request to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office about possible abuses of Michael Yassin as head of VGTRK.
. 19 December 1999 was elected to the State Duma of the third convocation.
. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy.
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