Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the RIOU Board of Trustees

Born on 7 November 1958 in the Kirovograd Region, Ukraine

Studied at Leningrad State University
1985-1989: worked in the Leningrad Prosecutor's Office as Prosecutor and Senior Prosecutor and headed the legal department of the Monolit-Kirovsky Concern in St. Petersburg (for two years)
1990-1994: Deputy Head of the Law Department, Head of the Legal Sector, Head of the Law Department of the St Petersburg City Council
1994-1996: Chairman of the Law Committee of the St. Petersburg City Hall
1996-1998: Chairman of the Law Committee of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Secretariat
1998: Deputy Governor of St. Petersburg, Chairman of the Law Committee of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Secretariat
1999: elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Investment Financial Union
August 1999: Chief Minister
2000: Deputy Chief of the President's Executive Office, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Strategic Studies
2003: First Deputy Chief of the President's Executive Office
April 2004: Chief of the Government Staff
September 2004: Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy in the Southern Federal District
September 2007: Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation
14 October 2008: appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia