Background
Rustam Minnikhanov was born on March 1, 1957 in a Volga Tatar family in the Yaña Arış village of Rybno-Slobodsky District in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Rustam Minnikhanov was born on March 1, 1957 in a Volga Tatar family in the Yaña Arış village of Rybno-Slobodsky District in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
He graduated from Kazan Agricultural Institute in 1978 as mechanical engineer and from Correspondence Institute of Soviet Trade as a commodity expert in 1986.
He is a doctor of economic sciences. Minnikhanov is married and fathered two sons. After graduating from the institute in 1978, he began his career as an engineer in Sabinsky District Association of Selkhoztekhnika.
He then worked in the district as a senior engineer and chief power engineer in a state timber industry enterprise and was deputy chairman of District Consumer Society Board.
In 1985–1993 he worked in Arsky District as chairman of the District Consumer Society Board, Chairman of the Executive Committee of People"s Deputies District Council, First Deputy Head of District Administration. In 1993 he was appointed head of Vysokogorsky District administration and in November 1996 he was appointed minister of finance of the Republic of Tatarstan.
From July 10, 1998 until March 25, 2010 he was prime minister of the Republic of Tatarstan. During his tenure as republican prime minister, Minnikhanov continued to be involved in industry, serving as chairman of the board of directors of the oil company Tatneft from 2005 to 2006.
As prime minister, he was known for his enthusiasm for technological innovation, spearheading the republic"s move to digital, paperless government and the streamlining of official business through the use of electronically distributed documents and electronic signing of official documents.
On January 27, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev nominated Rustam Minnikhanov to be the new president of Tatarstan and on March 25, 2010, Rustam Minnikhanov formally assumed the office of President. During the 2014 Crimean crisis, Minnikhanov acted as a mediator between the Kremlin government and the Crimean Tatar community over concerns raised amongst Crimean Tatars over potential persecution by Russia should it annex the peninsula. Foreign the 2008 and 2009 European Research Council series Hansen"s team built a brand new C4 for Minnikhanov.
Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th class Order of Friendship Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint St. Petersburg" Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan" Medal "Foreign Distinction in Eliminating the Effects of Emergency Situations" (EMERCOM) Order "Foreign Merit to the Republic of Tatarstan".
