ZHUKOV, Alexander Dmitryevich
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Alexander Zhukov (Александр Дмитриевич Жуков) was born June 1, 1956 in Moscow.

Graduated in 1978 from Moscow State University; major: economics and mathematics. Graduated in 1991from Harvard Business School.

1978-1980, researcher at the National Research Institute of Systems Analysis, USSR Academy of Sciences.
1980-1991, held various positions culminating with deputy chief of the Currency Department of the USSR Ministry of Finance.
1991-1993, vice-president of Avtotraktorexport, a vehicle export company in Moscow.
1994-1995, State Duma deputy from the Baumansky Dirstrict and the Dignity and Mercy political movement. Member of the Duma Committee for Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance. Member of the Duma subcommittee for foreign debt, precious metals and stones.
June, 1994, became member of the board of directors of East-West Bank.
Dec. 1995, elected to the Duma with the Forward Russia election bloc. Deputy chairman of the Duma Committee for Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance.
May 20, 1998-Jan. 2000, chairman of the Duma Committee for the Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance. Member of the Russian Regions (Union of Independent Deputies) parliamentary group.
On May 16, 1999, Acting Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin offered Zhukov the post of first deputy prime minister and Zhukov accepted the offer, but President Yeltsin rejected the appointment.
Dec. 1999, re-elected to the Duma, from the Preobrazhensky single-mandate constituency (Moscow); continued as chairman of the Duma Committee for Budget and Taxes and as member of the Russian Regions parliamentary group.
Dec. 2003, re-elected to the Duma as an independent candidate; joined the United Russia faction.
Mar. 9, 2004, appointed first deputy prime minister, under Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.

June 2004 - made councillor of directors of Russian Railways (RZhD) July 2004 - selected as chairman of Russian Railways
September 2004 - head of governmental commission on the conducting of administrative reform
November 2004 - member of the Higher Council of United Russia
July 2005 - by order of prime minister, removed from the position of chairman of governmental commission on administrative reform
August 2005 - re-elected as chairman of board of directors of Russian Railways
October 2005 - held post of vice-president of the Council for Implementation of the National Priority Projects under the President of the Russian Federation
November 2005 - ceased to be sole Deputy Prime Minister, following the naming of two more Deputy Premiers Dmitry Medvedev (First Deputy) and Sergei Ivanov (Deputy Premier, Minister for Defense).
February 2007 - Premier Fradkov makes a fourth Deputy - vice-premier Sergey Naryshkin, and Sergei Ivanov has been raised to the first vice-premier, having left his post as Minister for Defense. After distribution of powers between the assistants, Fradkov has charged to Zhukov to supervise macroeconomics ,investment policy and the activity of natural monopolies, to co-ordinate statistics and questions on insurance and taxation,  and to be responsible in physical culture and sports development. Zhukov would replace the first vice-premier Medvedev during the latter's absence.
September 2007 -  Prime Minister Fradkov's government resigns; Zhukov temporarily fulfills duties of Deputy Premier; new cabinet headed by new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, with Zhukov his Deputy Premier post
October 2007 - takes second place in the regional list of candidates from United Russia in Moscow in elections for the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 5th Assembly.
December 2, 2007 - stays in government, rejecting the deputy mandate, following party victory in the elections.
December 10, 2007 - appointed as chairman of governmental commission on ther effectiveness of the activity of federal and regional enforcement authorities
May 12, 2008 - reappointed deputy prime minister under Vladimir Putin's Second Cabinet

Within government,  Zhukov coordinates the work of the federal organs by giving their constituent commissions questions on the following areas:

- realization of National Priority Projects (except national project on agriculture) and state policy in the field of education, health services and social security of citizens, accessible and comfortable  accommodation, culture and art
- state regulation regarding youth policy
- uniform state demographic and migratory policy
- social partnership in the sphere of social-labor relations
- development of physical education and sport, including preparation for conducting the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014
- development of tourism
- interaction with religious associations
- state policy in the sphere of construction and architecture, housing and communal services

Fluent in English.

Hobbies: chess (holds the title Master of Sports in chess and is president of the Russian Chess Federation), football (soccer), hockey.

Married. Has one son. Wife - Yekaterina Vladimirovna Yershova.

last updated June 24, 2008