Federal Grid Company will be headed by Oleg Budargin

The new head of the Federal Grid Company (FGC) will be the ex-governor of Taimyr Oleg Budargin. The Board of Directors of FSK approved him as temporary. O. chairman of the company's board, the final appointment will take place following the results of the shareholders' meeting. Market participants and officials hope that his experience working in regional authorities will help Mr. Budargin solve the problems of developing the network economy.

A source close to MMC Norilsk Nickel told Kommersant on Sunday that ex-mayor of Norilsk Oleg Budargin should head FSK. Another Kommersant interlocutor, close to the shareholders of MMC, added that Mr. Budargin has already been introduced to the FSK team. FSK "Kommersant" clarified that Oleg Budargin's candidacy as temporary acting... O. chairman of the company's board of directors was approved on July 11 at a meeting of its board of directors. The chairman of the council, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, was instructed to sign an employment contract with Oleg Budargin. He will begin his duties from today. Now Mr. Budargin is an assistant to the presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Siberian Federal District (at the Siberia information center at the plenipotentiary mission, yesterday they knew nothing that Oleg Budargin had changed jobs).

Oleg Budargin in 1984-1995 worked in construction organizations at the Norilsk MMC, and served as deputy general director of JSC Norilsk MMC. In 2000-2002 - mayor of Norilsk, in 2003-2006 - governor of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug. After the district was included in the united Krasnoyarsk Territory, he became assistant to the presidential envoy in the Siberian Federal District, where he was responsible for large state investment projects. His name appeared on the lists of candidates for the gubernatorial posts of Kamchatka, Buryatia and the Irkutsk region.

The position of head of FSK has been vacant since July 1. Then the employment contract with Andrei Rappoport, who had headed the company since its inception in 2002, expired. The name of the successor was not named, temporary and. O. Aleksey Maslov, a member of the company's board, became the head of FSK.

But the figure of Mr. Maslov was immediately designated as interim: the first deputy chairman of the board of FSK, Alexander Chistyakov, explained on July 31 that the “real” temporary and. O. will be named at the next board meeting. In order for Oleg Budargin to take the post of chairman of the board of FSK, according to the company's charter, the consent of the shareholders' meeting is required (77.66% of FSK belongs to the state). The company explained that on July 11, the issue of convening a meeting of directors was not discussed; its date will be set at one of the next meetings.

Oleg Budargin will become the second regional politician to head a state-owned energy grid company. In February, ex-speaker of the Amur Region Parliament Nikolai Shvets, a native of Rosoboronexport, was appointed general director of IDGC Holding. Sources close to Norilsk Nickel cannot remember that Oleg Budargin was involved in energy projects. But also. O. Chairman of the Board of RusHydro Vasily Zubakin assured Kommersant that Oleg Budargin “seriously immersed himself in energy problems back in Taimyr, since the energy economy there was difficult, at the same time the networks and generation of Taimyrenergo, Norilsk Nickel and FSK.” Mr. Zubakin added that in the Siberian Federal District Oleg Budargin “oversaw the development of energy in Siberia across the widest spectrum.” The Ministry of Energy notes that FSK has “big plans for regional development” and the appointment of a person with “experience in working with the regions” will help solve these problems. According to the director of the Energy Development Fund, Sergei Pikin, at first Oleg Budargin “will delve into the problems of the network economy” and it is unlikely to expect other changes in the leadership of FSK.

Vladimir Kommersant-Dzaguto, Renata Kommersant-Yambaeva

The ex-governor of Taimyr was given light