I was born on January 15, 1957 in the city of Noginsk, Moscow Region of Russia. I graduated from high school 9 in Noginsk in 1974. I graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute with a degree in solid state physics in 1980. I studied at the graduate school of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy from 1980 to 1983. I worked at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy as a researcher from 1983 to 1997. I worked at the Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a senior researcher, leading researcher, chief researcher and head of the laboratory from 1997 to the present. I defended my thesis on "Study of the anisotropy of hyperfine interaction in paramagnetic crystals using Mossbauer spectroscopy" at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in 1985. I defended my doctoral dissertation on the topic "Theoretical background for Moessbauer spectroscopy in radiofrequency magnetic field as a method for study of nanostructured magnetic materials" at the Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2000.