Aksenyonok is the son of legal scholar (1910–1989). He was born in the town of
Chyormoz (now in the
Ilinsky District of
Perm Krai). He graduated from the
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1965) and completed advanced training courses for senior diplomatic personnel at the
Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1991). He holds a
Candidate of Legal Sciences degree. He is fluent in
Arabic,
English, and
French. Aksenyonok has been working in the diplomatic service since 1963. From 1963 to 1965, he was a translator at the Soviet embassy in Libya, and then from 1966 to 1968, worked in the embassy in Lebanon. From 1968 to 1971, he worked in the embassy in Iraq, and then from 1975 to 1978, in the embassy in Egypt. From 1978 to 1981, he worked at the Soviet embassy in the
Yemen Arab Republic, and from 1984 to 1988, he was a Minister Counselor at the embassy in Syria. From 1988 to 1990, he was a Chief Advisor, Deputy Head, and Head of the Department of Assessments and Planning of the
Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then from 19 February to 25 December 1991, he was the
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union to Algeria. With the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, Aksenyonok served as Russian ambassador to Algeria between 25 December 1991, to 4 September 1995. From 1995 to 1996, Aksenyonok was a Chief Advisor to the First European Department of the
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 1996 to 1998, he was an Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 11 November 1998, to 14 August 2002, he was the
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Slovakia. Aksenyonok retired in 2002. Currently, he serves as a managing director in a department of
Vnesheconombank and is a member of the Expert Council of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs. == Family ==