Chirskov was born on 24 April 1935. He graduated from the All Union Finance and Economic Institute by correspondence obtaining a degree in economics. He started his career at the Tyumazyneftesroy trust in the
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Then he served as a managing director of the Tyumen gaz mechanizatsia trust and headed the Glavsibtruboprovodstroy in the
Tyumen Oblast. He was the first deputy minister of the construction of the enterprises of oil and gas industry between 1978 and 1984. Then he appointed as the minister of this institution on 22 February 1984{{cite web |title=USSR Report. Energy|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA355231.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305074616/https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA355231.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=5 March 2022 Chirskov was a member of the
Communist Party's central committee.{{cite journal ==References==