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Sergei Kiriyenko

Sergey Kiriyenko
Серге́й Кирие́нко
Sergey Kiriyenko December 2011-1.jpeg
First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia
Assumed office
5 October 2016
President Vladimir Putin
Preceded by Vyacheslav Volodin
31st Prime Minister of Russia
In office
23 March 1998 – 23 August 1998
President Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by Viktor Chernomyrdin
Succeeded by Viktor Chernomyrdin (Acting)
First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office
23 March 1998 – 24 April 1998
Prime Minister Himself acting PM
Preceded by Boris Nemtsov
Succeeded by Yuri Maslyukov
Personal details
Born Sergey Vladilenovich Izraitel
(1962-07-26) 26 July 1962 (age 54)
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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