Московский государственный технический университет имени Н. Э. Баумана
Golovanov studied rocket engineering at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, finishing in 1957(?). During 1956-58 he worked in a laboratory of the Ministry of Aviation Industry. In September 1957 he started to write for the science department of the daily "Komsomolskaya Pravda", working there as an editor from February 1958. From 1968 to 2003 he was an independent contributor of the newspaper.