Background
Andrey Torgashev was born on July 11, 1961.
Andrey Torgashev was born on July 11, 1961.
Andrey Torgashev finished school in 1978 and then entered Magnitogorsk Mining-Metallurgical Institute. In 1981 he transferred to Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. After his graduation in 1984 Andrey Torgashev was assigned to the Institute’s department to continue scientific activity. He led local and foreign students’ construction brigades since 1984. In 1986 he graduated from Pedagogical Teaching University and entered Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys to Postgraduate Studie.
In 1987 he organized and took part in the international run Moscow – Warsaw - Ostrava – Budapest – Bucharest – Sofia. He was the head of the students’ organizations All-Union Council of the mining, oil, geological and metallurgical universities.
In 1986 Andrey Torgashev was chosen as a secretary of the Institute Komsomol committee in Moscow. On August, 1988 he act as the chairman of the organizing committee and as a speaker at the International conference in Lipetsk on issues of ecology in the metallurgical, oil and mining spheres.
Authorized by the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1988 Andrey Torgashev took part in the independent ecological expertise of the Magnitogorsk metallurgical plant together with the group of young scientists and specialists of the central committee of the Youth Communist League. From 1989 to 1991 he was a board member of the Environmental Fund of the USSR. When Andrey Torgashev was studying at the DUKE University (USA, 1993) at the famous independent Krible Institute he made a speech with his paper on ecology in Russia which was broadcasted on the national television in the US.
When Andrey Torgashev finished Postgraduate Studies he was appointed deputy director general of the VNPO "Ekostroykeramika" at the Council of Ministers of the USSR through a competitive process. He worked in Spain, Germany, Switzerland and other countries.
In 1992 he created the ICF/EKO Company. In 1994 A.Torgashev was the first vice-president of the Alfa-Bank. Now he is the head of the Russian representative office of the American company Kaiser Engineers, Inc.
Andrey Torgashev is married, has a son and a daughter.