Education
In 1973 he graduated from the Faculty of Geography of the Belarusian State University, and completed his PhD at the department of economic geography of foreign countries. In 1976 he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Geographical Sciences.In 1993 at a meeting of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), he defended his doctoral thesis.