Rustam MINNIHANOV

Category: Red Apple State Award

Rustam MINNIHANOV|President of the Republic of Tatarstan

He was born in Rybno - Slobosky, Tatarstan in 1957 and graduated as a mechanical engineer from Soviet Commerce Institute in 1978. He has a PhD degree in economics. Besides working as an engineer; he had been deputy chairman of Arsky Province Consumer Association between 1985 and 1993. He was also deputy chairman of People’s Deputy Regional Council and chairman of board of Regional Administrative Committee. He became the chairman of provisional government of Vysokogorsky in 1993 and was appointed as Minister of Finance in 1996 to Autonomous Republic of Tatarstan. He had served as Prime Minister between 1998 and 2010. He had worked as chairman of board of directors of Tafneft Oil Company between 2005 and 2006. He was nominated by President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev to be the new President of Autonomous Republic of Tatarstan in 2010 and on March 25, 2010 he formally assumed the office of Presidency. He is married with two children.