Education:
Far Eastern State University, Faculty of History and Law; postgraduate studies at Leningrad State University (1978).
Academic degrees:
Candidate of Historical Sciences (“Activities of the CPSU in the training and education of party and Soviet personnel during the period of developed socialism (1966–1971)”, 1978); Doctor of Historical Sciences (“Activities of the CPSU in the selection, training and education of party personnel in the Far East (1961–1986)”, 1990)
Place of work:
Head of the Department of Regional Studies, Vladivostok Institute of International Relations, Far Eastern Federal University.
Scientific and teaching activities:
1994–2001 — Head of the Department of Political Processes at the Vladivostok Institute of International Relations, Far Eastern State University.
Second job:
Professor of the Department of Humanitarian Disciplines of the Vladivostok Branch of the Russian Customs Academy.
Membership in the editorial boards of scientific journals:
member of the editorial boards of the magazines “Asia-Pacific Region: Economics, Politics, Law”, “Young Internationalist”.