From 1961 to 1962, Ponosov worked as a machine operator of a construction department in the
Tajik SSR. He then became a mechanic of a house building plant in the
Ordzhonikidzeabad District in the Tajik SSR. He served in the
Soviet Ground Forces from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, he became the chief technologist of the same house building plant and was promoted to Deputy Director of the plant in 1972. Ponosov joined the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1967. From 1973 to 1975, Ponosov served as the Deputy Chairman of the Ordzhonikidzeabad District Executive Committee. From 1975 to 1982, he served as the Second Secretary of the Ordzhonikidzeabad District Committee of the
Communist Party of Tajikistan; the
Tajik SSR branch of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He served as the Head of the Department of Organization and Party Work for the
Kulob City Committee of the
Communist Party of Tajikistan. From 1983 to 1985, he served as the
First Secretary of the Kulob City Committee of the
Communist Party of Tajikistan. He served as the Second Secretary of the
Gorno-Badakhshan Regional Committee of the
Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1985 to 1988. He served as the First Deputy Chairman of the
Dushanbe City Executive Committee from 1988 to 1990. He was also appointed to the post of Minister of Construction of the
Tajik SSR in 1990. He retained his post of Minister of Construction after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union although the ministry was dissolved by the
Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR in 1992. Ponosov was the third mayor of
Dushanbe and served from 1994 to 1996. He assumed the position of First Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan on 28 March 1996, but was relieved on 18 February 1998 and left for
Moscow. He served as the Head of the Department of
Rosstroy of
Russia from 1998 to 2001. == Personal life and death ==