Mintimer Shaimiyev, President of the Republic of Tatarstan
Born on January 20, 1937 in the village of Anyakovo in what is today the Aktanysh District in the Republic of Tatarstan.
Education
1954: Graduated from high school and enrolled in the Kazan Agricultural Institute to study mechanisation.
Experience
1959: Worked as engineer and then chief engineer at the Muslyum Repair and Technical Station.
1962: Appointed director of the Menzelinsk Agricultural Machinery Association (Selkhoztekhnika).
1967: Switched to administrative work in the Communist Party, working as an instructor and then the deputy head of the agriculture department of the Tatar regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
1969: Appointed Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR).
1983: Became First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the TASSR and subsequently worked for two years as Secretary of the Tatar regional committee of the CPSU.
From 1985: Served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the TASSR.
1990: Elected First Secretary of the Tatar regional committee of the CPSU.
1990: Elected Chairman of the Supreme Council of the TASSR.
On June 12, 1991: Elected the first President of the Republic of Tatarstan. He has been re-elected twice (on March 24, 1996 and March 25, 2001).
On March 25, 2005, as decreed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan appointed him President of the Republic of Tatarstan.
