Head of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Physical Education in Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health, Doctor of Pedagogy, professor. Honoured Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Full Member of the Baltic Pedagogical Academy.

Author and editor of over 250 publications. Author of such textbooks as: Pedagogy of Physical Culture (St. Petersburg, 1999), Theory and Methods of Physical Education (Kiev, 2003), Theory and Methods of Physical Culture (2003, 2004, 2007, 2010), History of Physical Culture (Moscow, 2013), Theory and Methods of a Selected Sport (Hockey): Selection in Hockey (St. Petersburg, 2013), Theory and methods of training young hockey players (St. Petersburg, 2017), monograph Sports Records: Theory, Methods, Practice (Moscow, 2005), Petr Franzevich Lesgaft: History of Life and Work, Professional-Activity Approach to the Systematization of Physical Education Methods (2010), Physical Culture and Sport in the Russian Federation: New Challenges of the Present (Moscow, 2013).