Viktor Zimin, Prime Minister of the Republic of Khakassia
Born August 23, 1962.
1982: graduated from the Abakan Agricultural Technical School.
2007: graduated from Tomsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
Served in military in the Soviet Army's armoured combat forces.
1983: began his career at Irkutsk's Construction and Assembling Department.
1986: appointed chief engineer at the Construction and Assembly Department in Bogotol. Became chief of the Directorate eighteen months later.
1992: appointed deputy construction chief of the Abakan branch of the Krasnoyarsk Railway.
Supervised dozens of major construction projects in Khakassia, including the construction of three tunnels on the Abakan-Taishet railway.
2001: awarded with the Honoured Railwayman Badge for his contribution to construction of the Dzhebsky Tunnel.
2003: elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Khakassia.
December 2, 2007: elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Co-founder of Khakassia's regional branch of the United Russia party.
May 2008-present: secretary of the branch's political council.
January 15, 2009: took office as Prime Minister of the Republic of Khakassia.
Married with three daughters.
