Background
Vyacheslav Fedorovich Gurkin was born on April 27, 1944 in the city of Lyubertsy, Moscow region.
Vyacheslav Fedorovich Gurkin was born on April 27, 1944 in the city of Lyubertsy, Moscow region.
Vyacheslav Fedorovich went to school in Baltiysk. Later he continued his studies in Tallinn. In the future, Vyacheslav went to school № 706 in Moscow. After moved to Baku and received his first work experience as a seller of ice cream and bread. In 1957 Vyacheslav's father Fyodor Semyonovich demobilized, and the Gurkins returned to the Moscow region, to their native Lyubertsy. In 1961, Vyacheslav graduated from the ten-year school. In high school Gurkin became interested in cycling, successfully played for the youth team at regional competitions, had the 2nd rank.
After school he decided to enter the Bauman Moscow City Technical University as a part of the sports stream, but after getting three for the first exam, he took the documents and applied for the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI). But he did not pass through the competition.So he got a job as a pupil of the instrument-maker at the plant of semiconductor devices. He continued to play sports, spoke for the society Trud Ukhtomsky plant of agricultural machinery.
In 1962, after the second unsuccessful attempt to enter the MPEI, Vyacheslav Gurkin entered the evening department of the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering and Mining Electromechanics, which had just been established on the basis of the Mining Institute. A year later he was called up for the military service and sent to the border troops to Turkmenistan, where he graduated radio school, sergeant school, served as squad commander, deputy platoon commander. At the same time, he was deputy chief of the operational group. In the army Gurkin began to engage in sambo, he took prizes at the championship of the society Dynamo in welterweight. He ended the service in the rank of senior sergeant, in the post of radio telegraphist of the 1st class.
In 1966 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering (MIREA), Electronics and Automation. In 1971, Gurkin graduated from MIREA in the specialty of "automation and telemechanics", defending the diploma project on the teleautomatic queuing system "Sirena" perfectly.
While studied at MIREA Vyacheslav still worked at the plant of semiconductor devices and intensively engaged in sports, became a candidate for the master of sports of the USSR, continued to advocate for a non-core company for his plant Trud. V. Gurkin made a decision to leave the factory, went to the Wings of the Soviets and simultaneously started working as an electrician in the Design Bureau of the Moscow Machine-Building Plant Salute, where he participated in the creation of tracking systems. In 1968 he fulfilled the standard of the master of sports of the USSR, but for reasons beyond his control he did not receive the cherished icon. Gurkin decided to leave the sport. Soon he moved to work in the closed unit (training center) of the Main Engineering Department of the SCS. He worked as an engineer-instructor and senior engineer-instructor. In 1970, he leaved the unit and begins working as a senior engineer in the communications laboratory of the Office of Intercity Communications № 22 of the Communications Ministry of the USSR in Zhukovsky. In 1971, V. Gurkin graduated from MIREA ,at the same time he got married and soon got a position of a senior engineer on duty, engaged in wire-line telecommunication systems.
In 1978, Gurkin is appointed to the post of chief engineer of the central long-distance telephone station named after the 50th Anniversary of the Komsomol (since January 1, 1988 - the Moscow territorial production association of long-distance and international communications named after the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol ).
In September 1980, Gurkin performed the duties of the chief and soon became the head of the Central long-distance telephone exchange.
In 1980, for his services in the field of the introduction of a complex of long-distance and international telephone exchanges, Gurkin was awarded the USSR Council of Ministers Prize. For achievements in the field of the introduction of scientific and technological progress, the Central long-distance telephone exchange regularly became the owner of the banner of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, the Central Committee of the Komsomol, and putting it on the All-Union Honor Board at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR. This was one of the highest acts of recognition in the Soviet Union.
In April 1991, Gurkin was appointed First Deputy Minister of Communications of the USSR. During the August coup, Gurkin served as Minister of Communications of the USSR and until January 1992, served as Minister of Communications of the USSR. With the completion of this process in February 1992, V.F. Gurkin worked for a while as First Deputy CEO of Intertelecom (now Rostelecom). Later a new stage in his life began in a new role of a manager, entrepreneur and businessman. From the beginning of the 1990s Vyacheslav Fyodorovich founded and for 7 years (1992-1999) headed the first Moscow mobile communication company - OJSC Moscow Cellular Communication (MCC).He was the initiator of the project of creating a federal network SOTEL ("Cell Phone of Russia") a project in which unified approaches, standards, requirements for building networks in the regions were implemented.
In 1993, Gurkin, in parallel with the work in the MSS, embarked on the implementation of a new large-scale project for Russia - the creation of a national transit mobile communication network that united all disparate networks into a single telecommunications space. Under his initiative Multiregional TransitTelecom (MTT) was founded in 1994, which he was rulling as a CEO for 10 years (until February 25, 2004). Since 1994, V.F. Gurkin is a permanent member of the company's board of directors.