Background
Shmatko was born in Stavropol (South-West of Russia).
Shmatko was born in Stavropol (South-West of Russia).
He was Russia"s from May 2008 until May 2012. He earned degrees from both Urals State University in Yekaterinburg (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics), and the University of Marburg in West Germany. His business career from 1992 involved stints consulting in Germany and Russia, and working at the All-Russia Bank of Regional Development.
He was appointed head of economic strategy at Rosenergoatom in 1997, and in 2005 became president of Russia"s nuclear-power export monopoly, Atomstroyexport.
In May 2008, he was appointed to the newly established position of, in the incoming administration of President Dmitry Medvedev.