Avramov was educated at
Moscow State University, earning a master's degree in 1970, a Ph.D. in 1975 (under the supervision of
Evgeny Golod), and a D.Sc. in 1986. He worked for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1970–1981 and 1989–1990, and
Sofia University in 1981–1989, before moving to the United States in 1991 to become a professor at
Purdue University. He moved again to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2002. ==Awards and honors==