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Oleg Belozyorov

Oleg Belozyorov
Олег Белозёров
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President of the Russian Railways
Assumed office
25 August 2015
Preceded by Vladimir Yakunin
First Deputy Minister of Transport
In office
11 May 2015 – 25 August 2015
Deputy Minister of Transport
In office
17 March 2009 – 11 May 2015
Federal Road Agency
In office
9 September 2004 – 17 March 2009
Personal details
Born Oleg Valentinovich Belozyorov
(1969-09-26) 26 September 1969 (age 47)
Ventspils, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater Candidate of Sciences

Oleg Valentinovich Belozyorov (Russian: Олег Валентинович Белозёров; born in 26 September 1969), is a Latvian-born Russian statesman and manager. He is serving as president of Russian Railways since August 20, 2015.

He served as First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation (2015); Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation (2009-2015); and the head of the Russian Federal Road Agency (2004-2009).

Oleg Belozyorov was born on September 26, 1969 in Ventspils (Latvian SSR) in the family physicians of city polyclinic. His father, Valentin Borisovich Belozyorov, worked as a radiologist, his mother, Leonila Kirillovna Belozerova a neurologist. He studied at the School of Ventspils number 2. During his school years he was fond of athletics seriously, preferring to sprint running and long jump. After graduating from school in 1986, he entered the university in Leningrad.

Since childhood, regularly made the 4-hour trip by train between Ventspils and Riga (180 km). As a student - on the night express train travel between St. Petersburg and Riga; since then it nourishes sympathy for the railroad.

As a young man fond of travel, walked Latvian medieval castles. He served in the army in the Murmansk region, on the border with Norway, then left.

In 1992, he graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance with a degree in economics, planning industry. From the fourth year, he began working in the youth scientific-technical center - the forge of future entrepreneurs.

From 1998 to 2000 he worked in Lenenergo and successively held the posts of Deputy Commercial Director, Commercial Director, Head of the Department of Logistics and Transport. Starting to earn decently, his parents bought an apartment on Vasilevsky Island.

In 2000 he worked as deputy director of cargo motor transport enterprise, number 21.

In 2000-2001, he became the chief of the financial and economic department of the Russian President's plenipotentiary representative of the unit in the North-West Federal District.

From 2001 to 2002, he was the deputy director of the management of corporate assets LOMO.


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