USTINOV, Vladimir Vasilyevich

Presidential Envoy to the Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation 06/30/2008

Vladimir Ustinov (Владимир Васильевич Устинов) was born February 25, 1953 in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk territory. A lawyer by background, he has served as presidential envoy to the Far East Federal District since May 2008.

From 1968 to 1972 Ustinov worked in the Korenovsk Sugar Factory, in Krasnodar territory. He then completed two years of military service before going to university.

In 1978, Ustinov graduated from the Kharkov Law Institute. He returned to Krasnodar territory in the early years of his law career, rising up the ranks of the Korensk prosecutor’s office between 1978 and 1983. After brief stints as deputy prosecutor of the Dinsky prosecutor’s office and prosecutor of the Gulkevichsky region in the mid 1980s, he spent the late 1980s and early 1990s as prosecutor of the Khostinsky region of Sochi. In 1992 he was made prosecutor of Sochi and two years later deputy prosecutor of Krasnodar territory.

In the late 1990s Ustinov was appointed deputy prosecutor of Russia and after a brief spell as interim general prosecutor of Russia, was confirmed permanently in the post in 2000. In the same year he was made a member of the Russian Security Council.

From 2006 to spring of 2008, Ustinov was the Russian justice minister. On May 12, 2008 under the new government headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Alexander Konovalov was made Minister for Justice, replacing Ustinov. On May 14, 2008 Ustinov was appointed presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District, replacing the outgoing Grigory Rapota.

Ustinov is married and has two children.

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