Career
He is a brother of Andrei Fursenko. Since the early 90s, Sergei Fursenko owns a dacha in Solovyovka, Priozersky District of the Leningrad region, which is located on the eastern shore of the Komsomolskoye lake on the Karelian Isthmus near Saint St. Petersburg. On 10 November 1996, together they instituted the co-operative society Ozero (the Lake) which united their properties.
Since July 2003 Sergey Fursenko is the director general of the Joint-stock company Lentransgaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom.
Since 2005 he is the director general (later president) of the football club Zenit, Saint St. Petersburg. Since February 2010 til June 2012 he was the president of the Russian Football Union.