Sergey Vladilenovich Kirienko is a unique Russian politician, businessman, manager. He is sociable, open, has pronounced leadership qualities. He began his political career at the age of 28, and at the age of 35 he became the head of the government of the Russian Federation.
Sergei Kiriyenko has his own style of management. He is equally polite and correct with colleagues, subordinates, opponents. The search for compromising evidence against him did not give anything to the detractors, but they discovered amazing facts about him - Sergey Vladilenovich is engaged in Aikido, has a fourth dan in discipline, is fond of fishing, sport hunting and shooting.
Biography
Sergey Kiriyenko was born in late July 1962, in the family of a professor of philosophy and an economist. At the time of the birth of the boy, his parents lived in Sukhumi, but soon moved to Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). When Seryozha was in 3rd grade, his parents decided to leave. Father stayed in Gorky, and mother moved to Sochi with her son. Kiriyenko graduated from high school there, but, having received a certificate, moved to his father, entered the Gorky Institute of Transport Engineers, where his father Vladilen Yakovlevich taught.
After graduation, Sergei was offered graduate school, but he chose to work in a specialty at the plant. In 1984, he was drafted into the ranks of the SA for military service, spent two years in the air forces on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, near the city of Nikolaev, was a castle platoon commander. In the same period of his life, Kiriyenko became a member of the CPSU. Interestingly, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he continued to keep a party ticket.
Kiriyenko and Yeltsin
Sergey Vladilenovich began his career in 1986, as a simple site foreman. After 4 years, in 1990, he was elected to the regional council, and after another 7 years he was appointed Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation. At 35, Kiriyenko took such a high post, became one of the youngest ministers in Russia in the history of the country. And it was Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin who contributed to such a rapid advancement of the young manager.
A year after being appointed minister, Kiriyenko was entrusted with the post of head of government, which he held for several months. The State Duma was categorically against such an appointment, but Yeltsin again and again put forward his candidacy. He argued his decision with the qualities of a young manager: "smooth, tough, consistent."
The resignation of Kiriyenko, as head of government, occurred in August. Sergey Vladilenovich accepted her with understanding. He was replaced by Primakov. The former chairman of the government did not leave his political career, remained a State Duma deputy, ran for mayor of Moscow, and took second place according to the results of the vote.
Rosatom and the Presidential Administration
In mid-November 2005, Kiriyenko was entrusted with the leadership of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency. Two years later, the department was reorganized, more than 300 enterprises, institutes and departments involved in atomic technologies went under its “wing”. Sergei Vladilenovich headed the new education holding, called Rosatom.
In the course of his activity as the head of Rosatom, Kiriyenko managed to significantly reduce the cost of electricity generated at nuclear power plants, to increase the utilization rate of enterprises and their capacities, but soon there were complaints about his work. He was accused of inefficient use of budget funds. As a result, in 2016 Sergey Vladilenovich resigned as head of Rosatom, but remained the chairman of the board of observers of the corporation.
In October 2016, Kiriyenko was appointed deputy head of the Presidential Administration. At the moment, he has been curating domestic politics in Russia for three years. According to some experts, it was Kiriyenko who provided invaluable support to his longtime friend Vladimir Putin in the presidential election in 2018, but what exactly it was expressed was not announced.
Kirienko was awarded more than once for his work and social activities. He is the owner of the Orders of Honor (Armenia), Daniil of Moscow, Sergius of Radonezh, Seraphim of Sarov (1st and 2nd degree), for services to the Fatherland, medals of Anatoly Koni, several letters of honor from the President of the Russian Federation. In 2018, information appeared in the media that Kiriyenko was awarded the title Hero of Russia, but no one from the government officially confirmed it.
