Education and qualifications:
1992-1995 Ph.D. (Tech.), the Institute of Physics and Rock Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic
1973-1978 Leningrad Mining Institute, degree with honours
Participation in professional seminars:
2009 Aktobe, Kazakhstan
2008 Vancouver, Canada
2008 Nevada, USA
2001 Edmond, Calgary, Canada
Experience:
From September 2012 to present – Director of the State Agency of Geology and Mineral Resources under the Government of Kyrgyz Republic
May 2012 – September 2012 – General Director of the Russian company “Mex-Resource”, exploration and gold production.
2011-2012 – Deputy General Director for Planning and Technology of Kinross, the Kumtor Mine in Russia.
1994-2011 – Chief Surveyor – Chief Engineer – Manager of Kumtor Operating Company.
1991-1994 – Director, Project Manager of the Scientific Production Cooperative Association “ISHEN” (salt mines, coal mines and the Tselny mine).
1991-1992 – Head of the Industrial Ecology and Nature Department of the Frunze Polytechnic Institute.
1978-1990 – Engineer, Junior and Senior Researcher, Lecturer, Associate Professor of the Mineral Resources Development Department, the Frunze Polytechnic Institute. Various mining studies for the Jergalan mine, the Khaidarkan Mercury Plant, the Kumtor deposit.
1975-1977 – Miner, the district surveyor of the Jergalan mine.
Awards:
2005 Award for Educational Excellence
2000 Honorary Diploma of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic
1992 Laureate of the Kyrgyz Republic State Youth Union Award in Science and Technology