Candidate of historical sciences, professor; worked in the institute for the far east of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR; later correspondent for All-Union Nika TV; 1994 - 1995 worked as the minister of republic Crimea for the external connections/communications and the means of mass information; from 2000 member of council for foreign policy of committee on the international affairs of the state Duma; journalist at KKSZh; on 27.03.1990 as "cosmonaut-aspirant" declined.