Career
He belongs to the IAAF Accredited Centre air traffic controllers Sochi, where Rodion Gataullin is sports director He has coached Andrey Silnov, Ivan Ukhov, Tamara Bykova, Yelena Yelesina, Sergey Klyugin, Vyacheslav Voronin, Anna Chicherova, Yelena Slesarenko, and Aleksandr Shustov. Some of his athletes have later changed coaches, like Ivan Ukhov who changed coach to Sergey Klyugin around January 2009.