- 1951
- Born May 21, 1951, in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Territory.
- 1976
- Graduated from Sverdlovsk Law Institute.
- 1970
- Electrician at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur Shipyard.
- 1970–1972
- Service by conscription in the Armed Forces.
- 1972–1976
- Student of Sverdlovsk Law Institute.
- 1976–1979
- Trainee, investigator of the prosecutor's office of Ust-Udinsky Distruct, Irkutsk Region, Deputy Prosecutor of the Tulun interdistrict prosecutor's office in Irkutsk Region.
- 1979–1984
- Transport Prosecutor in Taishet, head of the Investigation Department of the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office.
- 1984–1986, 1988–1990
- Instructor at the administrative bodies department of the Irkutsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, Head of the state-legal department of the Irkutsk Regional Committee of the CPSU.
- 1986–1988
- First Deputy Prosecutor of Irkutsk Region.
- 1990–1992
- East Siberian Transport Prosecutor.
- 1992–1995
- Prosecutor of Irkutsk Region.
- 1995–1999
- First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
- 1999–2006
- Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
- 2006–2020
- Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
- 2020
- January 22: Appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District.
- Married, with two children.