"Colonel of police (earlier the people’s militia) of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), assistant of the head of regional MIA. Call sign – KOMMUNIST.

By 2013, he had worked at LUHANSKTEPLOVOZ Plant.

In March 2014, head of civic organization KRASNYI VOSTOK (RED EAST).

In 2014, he sided with so called LNR. He managed resistance and participated in installing roadblocks in the city of Schastia at Luhansk. In addition, he coordinated supplies from Russia and represented the republic when the LNR representative office was opened. Later he was appointed assistant to the head of regional MIA."