Born in Russia, he is a doctor of philosophy from the Ural Mountains State University. From 1969 to 1992 he worked as a professor at the same university. From 1976 to 1978 and 1982 to 1983 he was an advisory professor at the Universities of Havana and Santiago de Cuba. In 1988-1989 he was a guest researcher at the UNAM Coordination and Dissemination Center for Latin American Studies. From 1992 to date he is a professor at the UAEM Faculty of Humanities, member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico and of the Moscow Academy of Sciences.
It has around one hundred and seventy publications including books, translations, articles and essays. In Mexico, he has published Love, Guilt and Death: Experiential Dimensions (1996); Anthology of Political Philosophy (1997); In search of dignity and the meaning of life (2002) and Essays on the history of Russian philosophy (2002), among others.