Born: 12 April 1950; Kursk.

Candidate of Sciences (Economics).

1969–1971: Served in the armed forces.

1971–1973: Engineer with the Kursk regional branch of Stroibank, Kursk.

1973–1974: Head of the group of technical control over capital construction with the Kursk regional government’s everyday services division, Kursk.

1974–1979: Credit inspector, deputy head of the contracting agencies division, head of the wage fund supervision division at construction of the Kursk regional branch of Stroibank, Kursk.

1979–1985: Deputy Head of the division for financing and crediting contracting agencies, manager of the Chara outlet of the Stroibank Baikal-Amur branch, Tynda.

1985–1986: Deputy Head of the construction division of the water-line construction company Voronezhvodstroi, Voronezh.

1986–1987: Manager of the Cominternovsky outlet of the State Bank of the USSR (Gosbank), Voronezh.

1988–1990: Deputy Head of the Voronezh regional branch of Gosbank and head of the bank co-ordination division of the Voronezh regional branch of Gosbank, Voronezh.

1990–1991: Head of the Voronezh regional branch of Promstroibank, Voronezh.

1991–1992: Chairman of the board of commercial bank Voronezhkreditprombank, Voronezh.

1992–1996: General Manager of joint-stock commercial bank Voronezh, Voronezh.

1996–1999: Deputy to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of 1996–1999 convocation, member of the State Duma Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finances.

1999–2005: Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

March 16, 2005—August 31, 2017: First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
Since September, 2017 — President of Association of banks of Russia