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ABRAMOV, Alexander Sergeyevich
Presidential Aide, Secretary of the State Council
 Born February 10, 1957 in the Moscow region
1979 - graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (in 1994, he graduated from the Russian Government Financial Academy Institute for Retraining and Improvement of Qualifications, specializing in finance and banking)
1979-1981 - worked as foreman, then head of a wagon depot for the Voskresensk sector of the Moscow railway system
1981-1991 - worked as regular secretary, then first secretary of the Voskresensk Town Committee of the Moscow Region Komsomol; he continued working for the Komsomol as second secretary, then first secretary of the Moscow Region Committee of the Komsomol
1991-1992 - chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the Moscow Region branch of the newly re-named Russian Youth Union
1992-1995 - deputy manager of Finis-Bank; then project manager in the public relations department of MENATEP Bank
1995-1997 - deputy head of the Department of Relations with State Bodies, Rosprom ZAO
1997-1999 - deputy chairman of the board of Alfa-Bank, responsible for liaisons with state authorities
December 7, 1999 - President Yeltsin appointed Abramov deputy head of the Presidential Administration responsible for working with the regions
June 3, 2000 - Abramov was re-appointed to the post by President Putin
September 1, 2000-present - secretary of the State Council
March 2004 - appointed Aide to the President
Contact information
Administration of the President of the Russian Federation
4 Staraya Ploshchad
Moscow 103132
Office of A.S. Abramov
Tel. +7 (095) 206 87 47
Fax +7 (095) 206 39 61
Email: abramov_as@gov.ru
Before Putin's 2000 presidential campaign headquarters were officially established under Dmitry Medvedev, campaign issues were handled by an unofficial structure headed by Dmitry Kozak, but in fact administered by Abramov. Analysts believe Abramov's work helped attract considerable capital to Putin's election campaign. Although Medvedev was officially named head of the campaign headquarters, Abramov is widely believed to have played the lead role in organizing the campaign.
Abramov’s appointment into the Presidential Administration was lobbied for by Vladislav Surkov, who, like Abramov, had been on Alfa-Bank’s board of directors and who was a protege of Alexander Voloshin, a leading member of the so-called “family” of the Yeltsin era. Abramov retains close ties to the chairman of the board and president of Alfa-Bank, Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven. He is known as a skilled lobbyist.
last updated October 25, 2004
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