Pavel Khramtsov graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and began his career at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. Among his first tasks was relieving the outcome of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: information systems he designed were used to track radiation levels within the 30- and 60-kilometer zones surrounding the plant, as well as to model the release of radioactivity from the fourth damaged unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. After that, as an expert he took part in the JSP1 and JSP2 international projects held as part of the Commission of the European Communities’ program for the development of information systems helping relieve the consequences of nuclear accidents.

In 1996, Pavel Khramtsov’s bestseller The Internet Labyrinth: A Practical Guide was published, which gave one of the first descriptions of the application layer technologies of the TCP/IP stack in Russian.

Pavel Khramtsov is a university professor at RSUH and MEPhI, and a creator of several lecture courses: World Information Resources, Open Systems, Computing Systems and Networks, and Fundamentals of Web Technologies (2003, 2007) among others.

He systematically collects statistical and information-analytical materials on the development of the domain name market and IP address space and is the main ideologist and developer of the Coordination Center’s Netoscope project.