Faculty of Law, Leningrad State University (LSU) A. Zhdanova.

Doctor of Law

In 1993 he became one of the co-founders of the law firm (later - the law office) "Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners". From 1978 to 2013 he worked at the Department of Civil Law of the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University.

Contract law, corporate law

He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.