Background
Tokarev was born in 1950 and graduated from Karaganda Polytechnic Institute in 1973.
Tokarev was born in 1950 and graduated from Karaganda Polytechnic Institute in 1973.
He is the president of the Russian pipeline company Transneft. He was reportedly a Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) officer in East Germany, where he met and allied with Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) officer Vladimir Putin. Between 1996 and 1999 Tokarev worked for the state Presidential Property Management Department where Putin"s title was deputy chief in 1996 and 1997.
From 2000 to 2007, he was president of the Russian oil company Zarubezhneft.
United Russia, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Tokarev has been president of Transneft since October 2007 and a member of the company"s board of directors since June 2009.