VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Born on September 26, 1960, the town of Karasuk, Novosibirsk Region.
Education
1982: Graduated from the Novosibirsk Institute of Water Transport Engineers, now the Novosibirsk State Academy of Water Transportation, and received a degree in Electrical Engineering.
2000: Completed a professional retraining course at the Government's Economic Academy.
Work experience
1981: Worked as senior technician with channel prospecting party No. 12 of the Ob basin administration's Novosibirsk technical district.
1982: Worked as line electrician at the Salekhard river port.
1982-2004: Worked at the Novosibirsk-based Sibselmash Production Association, was promoted from electrical equipment foreman to the enterprise's Director General.
January 2004: Appointed Deputy Head of the Regional Administration and Head of the Administration's Production and Entrepreneurship Development Department.
February 2005: Appointed First Deputy Governor of the Novosibirsk Region.
September 22, 2010: Appointed Governor of the Novosibirsk Region for a five-year period at a special meeting of the Novosibirsk Regional Council of Deputies.
Married, with two children.
