 After graduation in 1949, he was sent to the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (PIAS), where he later defended his PhD and became a professor.In 1952, he became a master of sports in mountaineering and the champion of the USSR.He was chairman of the Council on Electromagnetic Interactions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Bureau of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chief editor of the journal Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei (EPAN) and “ Letters to EPAN”, the member of the editorial boards of many scientific publications.