He was born on January 12, 1944 in Leningrad. In 1962 he entered The Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute ("Voenmeh"). After he worked at the All-Russian Research Institute for Electric Welding Equipment, as an engineer in the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute at the Space and Aviation Research Department and as a leading engineer at the Rocket Engineering Department of LMI — BSTU named after D. F. Ustinov. He is the author of more than 30 scientific papers.
Since 1974 Oleg Mukhin has been a scientific secretary of the Aviation and cosmonautics history section of the Institute of Natural History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and since 1978 he has been a member of the Soviet and then Russian Cosmonautics Federation bureau (up to now). He is a vice-president of the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics.
In 1997 he initiated and directly participated in establishing the North-West Interregional Public Organization of the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics, where he has been First Vice-President since 1997.
