Born on April 29, 1970 in Frunze, in the Kirghyz Soviet Socialist Republic.
Graduated from the N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1996, and also from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Graduated from the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade of the Ministry for Economic Development of Russia.
1996-2000: Worked in the Prefecture of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow.
2000-2004: consultant, Deputy Head of section, Head of the Department section, and Deputy Department Director in the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2004-2010: Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic.
2010-2011: Deputy Chief of the Government Staff of the Russian Federation.
February 2011 to date: President of "SC Olympstroy". Also a member of the Supervisory Council for the State corporation for construction of the Olympic venues and the development of the city of Sochi as a mountain climate resort.
Married. Has a son and a daughter.