Background
Igor was born on June 27, 1963, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Igor was born on June 27, 1963, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
He graduated from N. A. Voznesensky Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics (1991) with a degree in Enterprise Accounting.
In 1984-1985, he worked as an installation fitter at Leningrad Science and Production Association “Pozitron”. In 1991-1995, Golikov had been an accountant, chief accountant, since 1993 – Deputy CEO for Finance of “Delta Telecom” joint venture (Saint Petersburg). In 1995-2002, he had been Chief of the Department, Chief Accountant of “Petersburg Telephone Networks” open joint-stock company, Chief Accountant – Head of Department, Director of Economic Affairs and Finance of OAO “North-Western Telecom” (Saint-Petersburg).
Since 2002, Golikov had been Deputy Head of Department – Head of the Department of the Financial Monitoring Committee of the Russian Federation. Since January 2003, he had been Head of the Department of Major Taxpayers of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation, since October 2, 2003, Golikov had been Deputy Minister of Taxation of the Russian Federation. Golikov was in charge of the tax inspection and signed an act about underpayments at “YUKOS” himself. Since December 20, 2004, he had been Deputy Chief of the Federal Tax Service. He was in charge of tax collection from physical persons, “logistic support” issues, administration of the Federal Tax Service affairs, and tax bodies’ activities of the Southern Federal District. On June 19, 2009, Golikov was appointed Deputy Director of the Federal Service for the Defense Order.