Biography
Rustam Minnikhanov
Rustam Minnikhanov was born on March 1, 1957 in the Novyi Arysh village of the Rybno-Slobodsky District in the Tatar ASSR.
Education:
He graduated from Kazan Agricultural Institute in 1978 as mechanical engineer and from Correspondence Institute of Soviet Trade (Moscow) as a commodity expert in 1986.
He is a doctor of economic sciences.
Career:
1978-1980 - engineer in the Saby District Association of Selkhoztekhnika.
1980-1983 - senior engineer and chief power engineer in the Saby timber industry enterprise.
1983-1985 - deputy chairman of the District Consumer Society Board.
1985-1990 - chairman of the District Consumer Society Board in the Arsk District, 1990-1992 - chairman of the Arsk District Executive Committee, 1992-1993 - First Deputy Head of the Arsk District Administration.
1993-1996 - head of the Vysokaya Gora District.
1996-1998 - minister of finance of the Republic of Tatarstan.
In 1998, Rustam Minnikhanov was appointed Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan.
From March 25, 2010 – President of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Member of the Presidium of the RF State Council since June 2010.
State awards:
Order of Friendship (Edict of the RF President of 22 July 2002 No 756);
Order of Services to Motherland 4th class (2007);
Order of Services to the Republic of Tatarstan (Edict of the RT President of 01 March 2007 No УП-120);
Medal in memory of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg (2003);
Medal in memory of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan (2005);
Medal to mark the three billionth tonne of oil in Tatarstan (2007);
Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2008);
Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2009).
Married, two sons.
Keen on motor sport. Honoured Master of Sports.
