Education: 1976 – the Sverdlovsk Legal institute, jurisprudence specialty, lawyer qualification. Places of employment: 2003 – up to the present – Chairman of the “Novaya Advokatckaya Praktika”, the Moscow Bar Association. 1996-2003 – Chief of the legal advice office № 60 (“Sovetnik”) SPOKAD. 1995 – up to the present - Attorney at law, Saint-Petersburg Bar Association. 1991-1995 – Division Chief, the Investigation department, Moscow GUVD. 1987 -1991 –Senior Investigator for specifically important matters, the Moscow UVD on Air Transport. 1976 -1987 – Investigator, Senior Investigator, the UVD of the executive committee (Sverdlovskaya oblast). 1972-1976 – student at the Sverdlovsk Legal institute. 1971-1972 - Fitter at the municipal machine-building plant in Sverdlovsk. 1969-1971 - military service, Armed Forces of the USSR. 1968 – Fitter at the plant “Mikrodvigateli” in Tbilisi.