 After the war, Alexander Skopin studied at Leningrad University, where he was a student of Dmitry Faddeev; From that point to the end of his life, he worked as a researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute (where he was scientific secretary from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s) and taught algebra at the St. Petersburg University.He died on September 15, 2003, in St. Petersburg.Skopin's student work was in abstract algebra, and concerned upper central series of groups and extensions of fields.