He was born on February 18, 1951 in Bishov village, now Makariv district, Kyiv region. In 1974 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Then worked at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry as an engineer, postgraduate student, in 1980-1984 as junior researcher. From 1984 to 1994 was senior researcher, since 1994 - senior researcher, as well as head of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry at NTUU "KPI".
Scientific interests include secondary chemical current sources (electrode materials and electrochemical processes), physical chemistry and electrochemistry of molten systems containing complex fluorides, electrochemical thermodynamics and kinetics (thermal effects in electrochemical systems), high-temperature chemistry of inorganic fluoride systems, nanochemistry and nanomaterials.