Career
He was a worker of the Department of Agriculture "Kalinin truth" (1953-1955), the head of the Komsomol life Department of the regional newspaper "Change" (1955-1958) and a member of the Writers' Union (1959).
He was an editor of poetry department of the publishing house "Young Guard", a deputy editor of the journal "Youth" (1972), the editor in chief of "Youth" (1981-1992), the director of the Middle East representative of RTR (1997).
In the mid-1990s he was appointed as the Director of the Middle East representative of RTR in Israel. In 2003-2006 he was the presenter of the program "People want to know" on TV-Center.