
Lushnikov graduated from the Moscow State Open University in 1998 and has been in the customs service since 1992. He served in the Nizhny Novgorod Customs, in 2006 he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Volga Customs Administration.
During 2010-2013 Lushnikov was representative of the RF Federal Customs Service in North Ossetia, and since 2014 till August 5, 2021 was Chief of the Nizhny Novgorod Customs.