Sergey Zhvachkin
Russian politician
Sergey Anatolyevich Zhvachkin (Russian: Сергей Анатольевич Жвачкин; born 20 January 1957) is a Russian politician and a member of United Russia. From 1999 to 2007, he was a deputy in the Legislative Duma of Tomsk Oblast, from 2012 to 2022 he served as the 2nd Governor of Tomsk Oblast. Prior to entering politics, he was a manager in the oil and gas industry.
Biography
Sergey Zhvachkin was born on 20 January 1957 in the city of Molotov, Soviet Union, which is now known as Perm. He graduated from Tyumen State University of Engineering and Construction in 1979 and the Gorky Institute of Engineering and Construction in 1983. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a manager in various capacities at oil and gas companies in Tomsk Oblast. In 1991, he graduated from an economics institute in Kiel, Germany.
In 1999, he was elected to the Tomsk Duma. He served on the economic policy committee as well as the committee for natural resources, oil and gas industry and energy. He was appointed as the general director of Kubangazprom, a subsidiary of Gazprom in 2004, but continued to serve on the Tomsk Duma.
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