Date of birth
February 21, 1952
Place of birth
village of Tsebrikova of Odessa region
Education
- Military service, military education (1970)
- Leningrad Higher Military College of Railway Troops and Millitary Communications (class of 1973)
- Military Academy of Logistics and Transportation. Specialty – railway engineer (class of 1983)
Place of employment and position held
- Aide to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin (from 2013)
- First Vice-President of the Russian Olympic Committee (since May 29, 2018 to present)
- In 2014 he joined the Presidential council of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
- Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor of Moscow State Open Pedagogical University
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Table Tennis Federation of Russia
- President of the European Table Tennis Union (from 2020)
Career
- Military service in the Odessa Military District at the Moldavian Railway (1973-1976)
- Southern Group of Forces in Budapest, Hungary (1976-1980)
- Military commandant of a railway line and the railway station of Urgal on the Baikal-Amur Railway Mainline (1983-1985)
- Military commandant of the Moscow railway department, and then Deputy Chief of Military Communications (1985-1994)
- In 1994 he retired from the Armed Forces
- Forwarding company Fenix Trans Service in Odessa (1995)
- Irkutsk City Duma (since 1996)
- The owner of several companies, including Closed JSC Dormashinvest
- Russian Transport Minister (2004-2012)
- Aide to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin (2012-2013)
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President of the Table Tennis Federation of Russia (2006-2009)