Graduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Engineering and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

He was employed as leading engineer of the Research Institute of Physics and Technology of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation. At different times he served as top official at the Moscow Government Committee for Land Use, Moscow department of Land Resources, Moscow City Committees for Construction and Property Management.

Since November 2013 Mr. Ryzhkov has headed the Federal State Budgetary Establishment of Culture Agency for Management and Use of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.