Education
In 1959 he graduated as an Engineer from Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport.
In 1959 he graduated as an Engineer from Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport.
He was reelected three times (in 1994, 1998 and 2002). In 2002 he received 68% of the vote. From January to April 1990 he was nominal Vice President (Vice Chairman of Supreme Council) of Turkmenistan.
In April 1990 he returned to Buryatia and was nominated as a local communist party chief (1st secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union Buryatian branch).
In October 1991 he became Chairman of the Supreme Council.
Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.