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Irkutsk Oblast

Irkutsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of Angara River, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is the city of Irkutsk. Population: -History:...

, Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

) is a former KGB

KGB

The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...

 agent and later Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n businessman and official.

In 1983–1988 he worked as an undercover KGB agent in an obscure company in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, East Germany, where his neighbor was KGB officer Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...

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In 1996–1999 he served as the Chief of the External Economic Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Property Management Directorate.
From September 13, 1999, to November 5, 2000, he was the Director General of Promexport. On November 5, 2000, as Promexport and Rosvooruzhenie were merged into Rosoboronexport, he became a First Deputy Director General of it under Andrey Belyaninov

Andrey Belyaninov

Andrey Yuryevich Belyaninov is a Russian businessman and government official.-Career:*1978 – 1991 he worked for the KGB.*1992 – 1999 he worked as a banker in several Russian banks....

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In December 2001 he became a member of the board of directors of the Sukhoi

Sukhoi

Sukhoi Company is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, famous for its fighters...

 Corporation.
He was also a member of the board of directors of Almaz. Since June 2002, as Almaz Scientific Industrial Corporation and Antey Corporation merged into Almaz-Antey

Almaz-Antey

OJSC "Concern PVO "Almaz-Antey" is a Russian joint undertaking in the arms industry, a result of a merger of Antey Corporation and NPO Almaz, unifying some of the national military enterprises, in particular, the developers of anti-aircraft defence systems . The organisation is headquartered in...

 in June 2002, he has been a member of the board of directors of the latter.
Since April 28, 2004, he has been the Director General of Rosoboronexport. In November 2007 he became Director-General of Russian Technologies State Corporation, the sprawling state holding company that owns hundreds of Russian state companies including many of its leading and most important industrial and military-industrial companies.

Honours and awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland
  Order of Merit for the Fatherland
  The Order of Merit for the Fatherland was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree. The statutes describe it as a decoration for merit, not an order of knights....
  
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  • 3rd class (20 August 2007) - for services in the development of military-technical cooperation with foreign countries
  • 4th class
• Order of Honour
• Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France, March 2010) - for his contribution to the development of Russian-French cooperation in the field of high-tech production
• Order of the Holy Blessed Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy, 3rd class (Russian Orthodox Church)
• Order of St. Prince Daniel of Moscow, 3rd class (Russian Orthodox Church)
• Prize of the Russian Government
• Winner of the National Prize of "Man of the Year 2004" in nomination "The Military-Industrial Complex"
• Winner of a badge of honour of the International Forum "World Experience and Russian Economy", "Leader of Russian Economy 2004"
• AVN Award Winner
• Honorary citizen of Irkutsk
  Irkutsk
  Irkutsk is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population: .-History:In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for the collection of fur taxes from the Buryats. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov...
  
  (21 April 2011) - for outstanding achievements in the field of socio-economic and cultural development of the city of Irkutsk

External links

• Biography (in Russian)