He graduated from Leningrad Institute of Aerospace Instrumentation in 1977, majoring in Electronic Computers. He received a Doctor of Technical Science degree by the decision of the dissertation council at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in 2012.
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