Viktor Zimin, Prime Minister of the Republic of Khakassia
Viktor Zimin was born on August 23, 1962. He graduated from the Abakan Agricultural Technical School in 1982. In 2007, he graduated from Tomsk State Architecture and Construction University.
Viktor Zimin began his career in 1983 with the Building and Assembly Directorate of Irkutsk. Three years later he was appointed Chief Engineer at the Building and Assembly Directorate of Bogotol, and eighteen months later became the chief of the Directorate.
In 1992, Viktor Zimin was appointed deputy chief of construction of the Abakan branch of the Krasnoyarsk Railway. He presided over the building of several dozen major projects in Khakassia, including three major tunnels on the Abakan-Taishet stretch of the railway (as many are currently under construction). In 2001, Viktor Zimin was decorated with the Honoured Railwayman Badge in recognition of his contribution to the building of the Dzhebsky Tunnel.
In 2003, he was elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Khakassia. On December 2, 2007, he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
On December 8, 2008 President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia proposed Viktor Zimin's candidature for Prime Minister of the Republic of Khakassia to the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Khakassia. On December 10, the Supreme Soviet of Khakassia confirmed him as the new governor of the region.
He assumed the office of Prime Minister of the Republic of Khakassia on January 15, 2009.
He is married and has three daughters.
