Position

• Member of the High Council of Justice

On the free of charge ground

• Deputy of Donetsk region council (1998-2002, 2002-2004)
  
• Member of the Qualification Commission of judges of Donetsk region (1998–2002, 2002–2004)
  
• Member of the High Council of Justice (appointed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 22.03.2007. As a member of HCJ he took his oath at the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 02.04.2007)

Place and Date of Birth

• Dobropillya, Donetsk region, April 1, 1964

Education

• Donetsk High Military-Political School of engineering and communication troops (1985);
  
• Yaroslav Mudriy National Academy of Law, speciality "Jurisprudence" (1996)

Awards

• Government official, I rank (2004)

Previous Experience
08.1981-07.1985 - cadet of Donetsk High Military-Political School of engineering and communication troops;
09.1985-08.1986 - deputy company commander for political affairs, unit 77047, Turkmenistan;
08.1986-08.1990 - unit 14051 deputy commander for political affairs, Hungary;
10.1990-09.1991 - instructor, political organizer of ideological section, Donetsk City Committee of Communist Party of Ukraine;
09.1991-12.1991 - legal adviser, Donetsk railway;
02.1992-07.1992 - legal adviser, broker of firm "Variant", Donetsk;
08.1992-08.1994 - lawyer, executive director, deputy general director of "Legal firm "INJUR" Ltd., Donetsk;
08.1994-07.1995 - lawyer, State Tax Inspection of Kalininsky district, Donetsk;
07.1995-04.1996 - trainee, department of the prosecutor's office, Donetsk region, he has passed over a promotion examination on reception of the lawyer certificate;
04.1996-10.1998 - head of the legal department of confectionery "AVK", Donetsk;
10.1998-02.2004 - advocate, arbitration managing director, head of the science-methodical centre of ex-crisis managements, sanitation and bankruptcy, Donetsk;
since 09.1999 - lecturer (in combination), Donetsk State Academy of management, post-graduate student, law sciences, Institute of economic-legal researches of the National Academy of sciences of Ukraine;
02.2004-12.2004 - member of the Central Election Commission;
12.2004-04.2006 - referent of the National Deputy of Ukraine;
04.2006-15.03.2006 - National Deputy of Ukraine of the 5th convocation, Head of the Subcommittee on the formation of corps of judges, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Judiciary;
14.02.2007 - 08.11.2007 - First Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine;
since 08.11.2007 - Member of the High Council of Justice.