Ivan Demidov became the general director of the park "Russia"

Ivan Demidov, Director General of the State Autonomous Organization of Russia Directorate, was appointed on Thursday, who had until recently, the post of deputy minister of culture of Russia.

The Minister of Culture of the Moscow Region Oleg Rozhnov on Thursday signed an appropriate order for the appointment, reports ITAR-TASS.

The Russia complex is conceived as a nationwide theme park where it will be possible to get acquainted with the nature, traditions, and the cultural heritage of all regions of Russia. The park will take a territory of 1 thousand hectares in the south of the Moscow Region near Domodedovo. Earlier in the press service of the deputy chairman of the government
Moscow region, overseeing the issues of culture and tourism,
Sergei Perova said that the final model and financial justification of the Russian Park project will be determined in 2014,
Reminds RIA Novosti . "Directorate of Park" Russia "is a state budgetary institution of the Moscow region.

The Russian Park will be built mainly with extrabudgetary funds, so Ivan Demidov will first of all negotiate with potential investors, Kommersant explained one of the officials of the Moscow Region. He noted that the amount of costs is significant, therefore, as an anchor investor, one investor can be selected, which will attract co -investors to the project.

Recall that at the end of 2013, the authorities of the Moscow Region, following the results of the competition, chose the concept of the future park developed by Cushman & Wakefield, the construction of which should finally end in 2020 - 2021. This company proposed to make a flood tower with a height of 175 meters to the dominant of the park and bring the railway branch to future "Russia". The cost of this project will be $ 8 billion.

Ivan Demidov was born on July 23, 1963 in the city of Syzran Kuibyshev (now Samara) region. In 1995 he graduated from the Pyatigorsk State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in Russian Language and Literature (in absentia). Since 1984, he worked as an administrator of the main version of the programs for the youth of the Central Television of the GOSTRODORIO of the USSR, then he was the director of the View program. Many spectators are also remembered as the author and leading program "Musical West" of the Television Company "View".

From 2009 to January 2010, he held the position of executive secretary of the commission to counteract attempts to falsify history to the detriment of the interests of Russia. Later he became the deputy head of the Department of Internal Policy of the Kremlin Administration. In June 2012, Demidov took the post of deputy minister of culture, which he left of his own free will in early December 2013.