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BASARGIN, Viktor Fyodorovich

Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation

Viktor Basargin (Виктор Федорович Басаргин) was born on August 3, 1957 in the town of Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast. He was appointed minister of regional development of the Russian Federation in October 2008. Basargin was also a deputy presidential envoy of the Ural Federal District from 2001 to 2008 and chief of administration of the presidential envoy in the Ural Federal District from 2000 to 2001. In the late 1990s, he was chairman of the state institution "Sverdlovsk Oblast Property Foundation."

Basargin has a PhD in Economics and a certificate in law on professional practice in securities from the Federal Financial Markets Service of Russia.

In 1976, Basargin graduated from the Asbest Mining Technical College and began working as an assistant to an excavation operator. He later worked as a senior laboratory engineer and process engineer of the industrial complex, Uralasbest. Seven years later he was elected Komsomol committee secretary of Central Mine-management of the Uralasbest industrial complex.

Basargin’s rise through the Komsomol continued as he was appointed First Secretary of Asbest city Komsomol committee in 1985, and the secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional Komsomol committee two years later.

In the early 1990s, Basargin was appointed departmental chief and vice-president of the Property Fund in Sverdlovsk region, a governmental body and 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.

Basargin was a member of an interdepartmental working group for health as a national priority in 2006 and headed the supervisory board of "Industrial Ural - Polar Ural" the following year. The corporation is developing natural raw materials located within sub-polar and polar regions of the Ural Mountains at a planned investment cost of $11 billion dollars. In the autumn of 2008, Basargin, as head of the corporation's supervisory board, presented Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with plans to build new railroad lines and power infrastructure in the area. He also presented the prime minister with a joint plan by the corporation and the Ministry of Natural Resources to comprehensively develop its mineral and raw material base by 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. He replaced 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 and has two children.

Contact Information
The Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation
ul. Sadovaya-Samotechnaya 10/23 1., Moscow 127994
+7 (495) 980 2547
info@minregion.ru

Ministry of Regional Development