He graduated from the University of Chemical Technology, Mendeleyev Institute, in Moscow; he then spent 15 years at the Institute for High Temperatures in the Russian Academy of Sciences.
В июле 2001 года на проходившей в Солт-Лейк-Сити конференции American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics «AIAA JPC Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Conference» R.C.