Sergei Kiriyenko
| Sergey Kiriyenko Серге́й Кирие́нко |
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| First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia | |
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Assumed office 5 October 2016 |
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| President | Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Volodin |
| 31st Prime Minister of Russia | |
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In office 23 March 1998 – 23 August 1998 |
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| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Preceded by | Viktor Chernomyrdin |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Chernomyrdin (Acting) |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | |
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In office 23 March 1998 – 24 April 1998 |
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| Prime Minister | Himself acting PM |
| Preceded by | Boris Nemtsov |
| Succeeded by | Yuri Maslyukov |
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Sergey Vladilenovich Izraitel 26 July 1962 Sukhumi, Abkhazian ASSR, Georgian SSR |
| Political party |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1980s–1991) Independent (1991–1998) Union of Right Forces (1998–2008) |
| Spouse(s) | Maria V. Kiriyenko |
| Children | Vladimir Lyubov Nadezhda |
Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko (Russian: Серге́й Владиле́нович Кирие́нко; born 26 July 1962) is a Russian statesman and politician. He served as the 31st Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin. Between 2005 and 2016 he was the head of Rosatom, the state nuclear energy corporation.
Sergei Kiriyenko's grandfather, Yakov Israitel, made his name as a devoted communist and member of the Cheka, and Vladimir Lenin awarded him with an inscribed pistol for his good service to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Sergei Kiriyenko, son of a Jewish father, was born in Sukhumi, the capital of the Abkhazian ASSR, and grew up in Sochi, in southern Russia. He adopted Ukrainian surname of his mother. After graduation from high school, Kiriyenko enrolled in the shipbuilding faculty at the Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) Water Transport Engineers Institute, where his divorced father taught.
Kiriyenko was appointed Prime Minister after the dismissal of Viktor Chernomyrdin's Second Cabinet. The State Duma, dominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, twice refused to confirm his appointment but president Boris Yeltsin nominated him a third time and Kiriyenko was confirmed.
Along with Deputy Prime minister Boris Nemtsov and Anatoly Chubais, Kirienko became known as one of "young reformists". They tried to improve the Russia's economy using International Monetary Fund credits, and it elevated the national debt to the level of $22.6 billion.
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