Petr Topychkanov served in the 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, Russian Armed Forces from 2003 to 2004. He joined the Carnegie Moscow Center's Nonproliferation Program in 2006, when it was co-chaired by Rose Gottemoeller and Academician Alexei Arbatov. In 2009, Topychkanov worked as a senior researcher at the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2014, he joined the Center's Information Security Problems Group and became an expert at the Russian International Affairs Council. He is also a participant of the Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an associate of the South and Central Asia Project at the York Centre for Asian Research.
