Биография Сергея Владиленовича Кириенко

Sergey Vladilenovich KIRIENKO

Biography Data

He was born July 26, 1962, in the city of Sukhumi, Georgia where he graduated from high school.

Kirienko attended the Gorkii (Nizhnii Novgorod) Water Transport Engineering Institute, shipbuilding department, and completed his studies in 1984. Upon graduating from the institute, he served in the Soviet army from 1984 to 1986.

After his two year stint in the army, Kirienko worked as a foreman at the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard. Later, he was elected secretary of the local Komsomol (Young Communist League) committee, and was soon appointed first secretary of the Gorkii regional Komsomol committee. In the late 1980s, Kirienko became the director general of the AMK youth concern.

He was elected a member of the Gorkii Regional Council of People's Deputies in March 1990.

Kirienko then continued his education and studied finance and banking at the Russian Government Academy of the Economy in 1991-1993.

From 1993 to 1996, he served as chairman of the board at Nizhnii Novgorod's Garantia bank. In August 1994, he was appointed to the President of Russia's Council for Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship.

In 1996, following a recommendation from the Nizhnii Novgorod regional administration and the Russian government, he became president of the NORSI oil company.

On May 13, 1997, Kirienko was appointed First Deputy Energy Minister of the Russian Federation.

Soon thereafter, he was appointed Deputy Chair of the governmental Commission for Co-ordination of the Implementation of Production-Sharing Agreements between federal executive bodies and regional authorities on September 2, 1997.

In October 1997, he was appointed head of the Interdepartmental Commission for independent entities' access to Gazprom's gas-transportation network.

He has been a member of the panel of state representatives in the Transneft company since October 1997.

On November 20, 1997, a presidential decree named him Energy Minister.

He was appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Federation by presidential decree on April 24, 1998.

Another presidential decree dismissed Kirienko's entire cabinet on August 23, 1998.

He then announced the formation of his own political movement on November 26, 1998.

On May 18, 2000, president Vladimir Putin’s decree named Kirienko the Presidential Plenipotentiary for the Volga Federal District.

Since May 2001, Sergey Kirienko is the chairman of the state committee for the destruction of chemical weapons.

Sergei Kirienko is married to Maria Vladimirovna Kirienko. They have one son Vladimir and a daughter Lubov.

Kirienko enjoys hunting, fishing, scuba diving and Aikido.