Traveler. Pilot of a free balloon. Captain of a long-distance voyage. Yacht captain.

• Five voyages around the world.
• Fifteen times across the Atlantic on sailing yachts, once on a paddleboat called Uralaz.
• First and only person to cross the Pacific Ocean in both directions (east to west in 2014 and west to east in 2019) on a paddleboat.
• Made the first successful crossing of the Southern Ocean from New Zealand (Dunedin City) to Drake Passage (Diego Ramirez Islands, Chile) on an AKROS paddleboat in the history of ocean rowing.
• The first man in the world to reach five poles of our planet: the North Geographic Pole (three times), the South Geographic Pole, the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean, Everest (the Pole of Altitude), Cape Horn (the Pole of Yachtsmen).
• First in the world to complete the Adventurers Grand Slam program: North Pole (1988), South Pole (1996), and seven world summits including Everest (from 1992 to 1997).
• The first Russian to complete the Seven Summits of the World program - climbed the highest peak of each continent (Everest twice).
• Archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
• Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (RAKh). Awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Author of more than 3,000 paintings.
• Member of the Writers’ Union of the Russian Federation.
• Author of more than twenty-five books.
• Full member of the Russian Geographical Society.