From 1998 to 2002 - on-board technician of the helicopter Mi-8. Yurya-2 of the Kirov region. From 2002 to 2012 he is the leading engineer for a spacesuit for spacewalk and a set of means of lockship FGBU "NII TsPK named after Yu.A. Gagarin.
October 08, 2012 - by the decision of the Inter-Departmental Commission was recommended to be recruited for the post of candidate for test-cosmonauts of the Cosmonaut Corps of FGBU "NII TsPK named after Yu.A. Gagarin. October 26, 2012 - was appointed to the post of candidate test-cosmonauts of the cosmonaut detachment of FGBU "NII TsPK named after Yu.A. Gagarin. "
Since July 15, 2014 - test - cosmonaut of cosmonaut team of Roscosmos.
