Moscow Administration.

Sergei Baidakov was appointed prefect of the Central District of Moscow instead of Gennady Degtyarev. Yuri Alpatov became prefect of the Western District instead of Vladimir Kiryushin, and Nikolai Evtikheev became prefect of the Eastern District instead of Boris Ulyanov.

Baidakov was born on February 11, 1965 in Balashikha (Moscow Region). In 1988 he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a degree in electrical engineering, and in 1995 from the Moscow State Law Academy with a degree in jurisprudence. From 1986 to 1992 he worked at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, rising to the rank of deputy vice-rector. From 1990 to 1992 he was a deputy of the Kalininsky District Council of People's Deputies. From 1992 to 1993 he was director of the student campus of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, and from 1993 to 1998 he was first deputy sub-prefect of the Lefortovo municipal district. From 1998 to 2000 he headed the Lefortovo district administration. From 2000 to 2003 worked as the first deputy prefect of the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

Alpatov was born on July 19, 1954 in Tambov Oblast. He graduated from the Moscow Automotive Mechanical Institute. Before his appointment as prefect, he worked as the first deputy chairman of the committee for municipal loans and stock market development of the Moscow government.

Before his appointment, Evtikheev worked as the first deputy head of the Department of Science and Industrial Policy of the Moscow Government.

Ministry of Property.

Vadim Artyukhov has been relieved of his post as Deputy Minister of Property Relations.

Artyukhov was born on September 13, 1972 in Krasnodar Krai. He received a higher education in finance. He worked in the system of Promstroibank of the USSR. He held the post of chairman of the board at Kreditprombank (in 1997, the license was revoked). He worked in the secretariat of Deputy Prime Minister Khristenko, was an adviser to Prime Minister Kasyanov on relations with the Bank of Russia, the Federal Securities Commission and the Ministry of Energy. In 2002, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Property Relations.

MOPO "LUKOIL".

Former Kogalym Mayor Georgy Kiradiyev has been elected Chairman of the International Association of Trade Union Organizations (IATUO) "LUKOIL" (uniting 155,000 people). His predecessor Anatoly Yashchenko has retired. The duties of the Kogalym Mayor have been assigned to First Deputy Mayor Sergei Kakotkin.

Kiradiyev was born on December 2, 1958 in the village of Starobeshevo, Donetsk region, Ukrainian SSR. He graduated from the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University with a degree in "manager in the fuel and energy complex" in 1998. From 1979 to 1988 he worked as a driver. From 1988 to 1989 In 1989-1997, he worked as deputy chairman and chairman of the trade union committee of AOOT LUKOIL-Kogalymneftegaz. In 1997-2000, he was chairman of the trade union committee of the territorial trade union organization LUKOIL - Western Siberia. In 2000, he was elected mayor of Kogalym. In December 2003, he worked as deputy general director for relations with government agencies, public organizations and the media of LUKOIL - Western Siberia.

Heinz Zinner became the chairman of the board of directors of Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill. His predecessor Vladimir Krupchak resigned due to his election to the State Duma. Zinner is the managing director of the Austrian company Pulp Mill Holding, which owns 60% of the shares of Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill. According to Zinner, in order to continue the positive development of the enterprise, investments in the amount of over $40 million are planned for 2004.

Zinner was born on May 2, 1941 in Czechoslovakia. In 1966 he graduated from the University of Commerce in Vienna. In 1962 he joined Raccolta as a sales manager. In 1969 he became sales director for Western Europe at Ekman, and from 1973 - managing director of Ekman (Vienna). From 1981 to 2003 he was managing director of the pulp and paper company Wilfred Hienzel AG (Vienna). In 2003 he was appointed managing director of Pulp Mill Holding.

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Space Communications".

Yuri Izmailov has been appointed acting general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Space Communications" to replace Alexander Duka, who will return to his previous job as director of the Dubna Space Communications Center (a branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Space Communications").

Izmailov was born on December 10, 1951 in Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast. In 1974 he graduated from the Odessa Polytechnic Institute, specializing in "design and production of radio equipment", and in 1979 from the Military Academy of Communications in Leningrad, specializing in "engineer of military systems and communications equipment". From 1974 to 1991 he served in the KGB government communications troops. From 1991 to 2003 he worked at the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI), where he headed the government communications department. In August 2003, he joined Kosmicheskaya Svyaz as Deputy Director General for Operation of Ground-Based Communications Equipment.

Ministry of Economic Development.

Roald Piskoppel has been relieved of his post as Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade due to his retirement.

Piskoppel was born on November 6, 1943 in Moscow. He graduated from MGIMO in 1967. In 1970-1975 he was a senior economist at the USSR Trade Mission in Czechoslovakia. In 1975-1982 he worked in the Department of Trade with Socialist Countries of Europe of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. In 1982-1989 he was Deputy Trade Representative, then Trade Representative of the USSR in Czechoslovakia. In 1989-1995 he worked as Head of the Main Department of Economic Relations with European Countries - Members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations (MFER), Head of the Department of Trade and Economic Relations with the Countries of Europe and North America of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. In 1995-1998 he was Trade Representative in Denmark. In 1998 he became Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations. In 1998-2000 - Deputy Minister of Trade of the Russian Federation, in 2000 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade.

NTV.

Georgy Urushadze has been appointed director of the marketing department, and Nikolay Vasiliev has become director of the advertising department of the NTV television company.

Urushadze was born in 1972 in Leningrad. In 1995 he graduated from the journalism department of St. Petersburg State University. In 1992 he became the head of the Moscow bureau of the television and radio company "Petersburg - 5th Channel". In 1995 he was appointed head of the program "Vovremya" of the St. Petersburg TRK. In the second half of the 90s he worked as an expert of the parliamentary commission, assistant to the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. Since 2002 he held the position of first deputy editor-in-chief of the Palmira publishing house for advertising and marketing, and in 2003 he became the editor-in-chief of the publishing house.

Vasiliev was born in Moscow in 1974. In 1996 he graduated from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in management, specializing in marketing and advertising. From 2001 to 2003 he held the position of director of the advertising agency NFQ.

"Mobile TeleSystems".

Sergey Aslanyan has been appointed Vice President for Information Technology at Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). This position did not exist before. Aslanyan will be responsible for developing and implementing the IT strategy, operating and implementing information technologies and solutions at MTS.

Aslanyan was born on September 18, 1973 in Yerevan. In 1996 he graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, specializing in applied mathematics. From 1997 to 2001 he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers (until 1999 - Coopers & Lybrand) as a senior consultant. From 2001 to 2003 he was deputy head of the information technology block at TNK (now TNK-BP Management).

"Salans".

Mikhail Ivanov has been appointed partner of the St. Petersburg office of the law firm Salans.

Ivanov was born on October 30, 1962 in Leningrad. In 1984 he graduated from the international law faculty of MGIMO. In 1987-1992 he worked as a research fellow (since 1991 - head of the laboratory) at the Central Research Institute of the Marine Fleet of the USSR Ministry of the Maritime Fleet. In 1993-1996 he worked at the law firm "M. Ivanov and Partners" in St. Petersburg. In 1996-1998 he was a lawyer in the Moscow office of the German law firm "Deringer Tessin Hermann & Zedemund". In 1998 he joined the company "Salans" as a senior lawyer in the company's Moscow office, and since 2000 he has held a similar position in the firm's St. Petersburg office.

AVK.

Elena Nastay has been appointed executive director of the investment company AVK.

Nastay was born in Leningrad on February 23, 1964. In 1987, she graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, specializing in "electronic engineering". She worked as a research fellow at the S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute. In 1996, she received an MBA from the Leti-Lovanium International School of Management (St. Petersburg). In 1997, she joined AVK, where in 2000 she became the head of the corporate law department, and in 2002 - the head of the corporate finance department.

"Uniastrum Bank".

Igor Polikarpov has been appointed head of the department of innovative banking technologies at Uniastrum Bank. He will be developing new consumer lending technologies for the bank, as well as developing leasing and factoring. "We plan to improve the technology of car loans, and in early 2004, enter the market with new loan products for repairs and furnishing of apartments and houses. Credit cards remain an important area for us," says Polikarpov.

Polikarpov was born on June 28, 1965 in Ufa. In 1987 he graduated from the Ufa Aviation Institute, specializing in "aircraft instrumentation". In 1998 he received a second higher economic education in the specialty "finance and credit" at the Ufa Technological Institute. In 1987-1993 he was engaged in the development of automation systems for aircraft engines. In 1993 he moved to Agroprombank "Bashkiria", rose to the position of head of the securities department. In 2000-2001 he worked as the head of the investment department of "Akkord-Invest". From 2001 to 2002 he headed the corporate clients and market analysis department of the banking business development department of Bashprombank. In 2002-2003 he worked as the head of the bank cards department of the Ufa branch of the International Industrial Bank.

Industrial construction bank.

Dmitry Sokolov has been appointed chief accountant of the Industrial and Construction Bank (PSB, St. Petersburg). He replaced Nellya Petrunenko, who became deputy chief accountant.

Sokolov was born on August 18, 1970 in Gatchina. In 1992 he graduated from St. Petersburg State University (specializing in "economic cybernetics"). In 1993 he joined PSB as the head of the securities department of the Admiralteysky branch, then he was deputy head of the dealer operations department, head of the financial analysis department, head of the bank's financial department, and from 2001 until recently he was deputy chairman of the board of PSB.

"Rostelecom".

Vadim Yakovlev has been appointed Deputy General Director and Technical Director of Rostelecom OJSC. His predecessor, Vladimir Terekhov, has been appointed First Deputy General Director of Rostelecom.

Yakovlev was born in 1968 in Leningrad. In 1991 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Military Engineering School of Communications. He served in the army. From 1995 he worked in telecommunications companies, including Peterstar and Petersburg Transit Telecom. In 2002 he became deputy technical director of Rostelecom.

The column was prepared by Anton Osipov and Serafima Gavrilova.

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