Born on May 23, 1952 in Menzelinsk, the Tatar ASSR..

Graduate of Menzelinsk Agriculture School (agronomist), Kazan Agricultural Institute (economist).

1967-1971 – machine operator, agronomist (Yelabuga, Tatarstan).

1971-1976 – student, Faculty of Economics, Kazan Agricultural Institute.

1976-1977 – assistant lecturer, Department of Management, Kazan Agricultural Institute.

1977-1978 – military service.

1978-79 – economist, Yelabuga Agricultural Directorate.

1979-1985 – Yelabuga City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, instructor, agricultural division of the CPSU Tatar Public Committee.

1985-1986 – deputy head of the Republican Directorate of bread products.

1986-1988 – deputy head of the agricultural division of the CPSU Organizing Committee.

1988-1989 – first secretary of the Vysokaya Gora CPSU regional committee.

1990-1991 – director general of NPO Tatraps.

1992-1997 – director general of ОАО Sanvo.

1997-1998 – director of VNIIPTIHIM (institute of chemicalization)From April 1998 - adviser to the Prime Minister, Head of A.I.C., land relations and consumer market Department of Tatarstan Government.

From August 2010 - aide to the Tatarstan President.

Grand PhD (Economics), professor.

Laureate of the Tatarstan state prize in the field of science and engineeringCorresponding member of the Tatarstan Academy of Science, department of social and economic studies.

Honored worker of Tatarstan agriculture.

Married, two children (son and daughter).