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BASARGIN, Viktor Fyodorovich

Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation

Viktor Fyodorovich Basargin (Виктор Федорович Басаргин), a former deputy presidential envoy of the Ural Federal District (2001-2008), was appointed minister of regional development of the Russian Federation in October 2008. In addition, Basargin held the positions of chief of administration of the presidential envoy in the Ural Federal District (2000-2001) and chairman of the state institution "Sverdlovsk Oblast Property Foundation" (1996-2000). He is a Kandidat of Economics and is qualified with a First Category certificate in law on professional practice in securities from Federal Financial Markets Service of Russia.

Basargin was born on August 3, 1957 in the town of Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast.

In 1976 Basargin graduated from the Asbest Mining Technical College and subsequently began to work as an assistant to an excavator operator, and would subsequently work as a senior laboratory engineer and process engineer of the industrial complex, Uralasbest.

In 1983, Basargin was elected as Komsomol committee secretary of the Central Mine-management of the Uralasbest industrial complex.

In 1984, Basargin graduated from the Vakhrushev Sverdlovsk Mining Institute (nowadays, the Urals State University of Mines) with a specialisation in "technology and complex mechanisation of open-cast mining of mineral deposits." In 1985 he held the post of First Secretary of Asbest city Komsomol committee, and in 1987 became the secretary of Sverdlovsk regional Komsomol committee.

In 1991 Basargin received a second university degree in political science at the Sverdlovsk Socio-political institute (formerly, the Sverdlovsk Higher Party School).

In 1992, Basargin was appointed departmental chief and vice-president of the Property Fund in Sverdlovsk region, a governmental body; in 1994 held the position of First Deputy of the chairman of Sverdlovsk regional committee on management of state property; in 1996, he was made chairman of the Property Fund in Sverdlovsk region.

In 2000 Basargin received  a First Category certified qualification from the Federal Agency on Financial Markets (Federal Commission on Securities) on the professional work right to a securities market. In the same year, he received a PhD in economics, having defended his thesis on "joint-stock property as an economic basis of formation of the corporate control within privatised enterprises."

In August 2000, Basargin was given the position of head of administration at the office of the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in Ural Federal District (UFD), Pyotr Latyshev [13]. In March 2001, Basargin was promoted to aide of the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the UFD.

In January 2006, Basargin became a member of an interdepartmental working group -  for health as a National Project priority; - for democratic policy at the Federation Council for the implementation of National project priorities; - for democratic policy at the office of the President of the Russian Federation.

In March 2007, Basargin headed the supervisory board of  "Industrial Ural - Polar Ural" corporation. The corporation has sought to construct an industrially-infrastructural complex on the basis of development of natural raw materials located within sub-polar and polar regions of the Ural Mountains and building key elements in transport and electrical power infrastructure. According to the Office of the Plenipotentiary, by 2010 the sum of investments of the project should reach 11 billion dollars. In the autumn of 2008, Basargin as head of the corporation's supervisory board, presented Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the plans in designing new railroad lines and building a power infrastructure. In addition, Basargin presented Putin an accord between the Ministry of Natural Resources and his corporation on the "Comprehensive plan for mineral and raw material base development" for 2010-2015.

Despite media speculation over a prospective appointment as regional governor, Basargin was appointed in October 2008 by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev as the new minister of regional development, replacing Dmitry Kozak who was made the eighth deputy premier, responsible for preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi.

Basargin is married, has two children - a son, a graduate of Ural Timber College, and  a daughter - a student at the Ural State Legal Academy.

Sources

Lenta.Ru, Profile of Viktor Fyodorovich Basargin (in Russian)

Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, Profile of Viktor Fyodorovich Basargin (in Russian)

Last updated December 8, 2008