He studied at Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering, a highly respected public high school in the Soviet Union. After graduation in 1983 Gerasimov continued to progress in his career in one of the biggest soviet research and development and design institutes ‘LenNIIProject’. In 1991 he began his own architectural business and succeeded. Evgeny Gerasimov is an Honoured Architect of Russia, member of the Russian Union of Architects, corresponding member of the International Academy of Architecture, a subsidiary in Moscow (MAAM) and member of the Planning Council of St. Petersburg.